Charles T. Donworth

Charles Tenney Donworth (February 15, 1892 – June 10, 1976) was a justice of the Washington Supreme Court from September 12, 1949 to December 31, 1967.

Early life, education, and career Born in Seattle, Washington, to prominent attorney George Donworth, who later became a United States federal judge, Donworth attended Andover Academy (later called Phillips Academy) in Massachusetts and received an undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1914, followed by a law degree from the University of Washington School of Law in 1916.

Donworth served in the United States Army during World War I,

Judicial service On August 29, 1949, Governor Arthur B. Langlie announced the appointment of Donworth to a seat on the state supreme court to succeed retiring justice William J. Steinert. daughter of a prominent Washington judge, with whom he had a son and a daughter. Evelyn died after an illness in 1934, at the age of 41. Donworth died in a hospital in Olympia at the age of 84.