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Article: HIGH COURT JUDGE DOES HEAVY LIFTING AT WORK AND PLAY.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- November 26, 1999
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One Washington power-lifting champion gives new meaning to the term ``bench press.''
She's state Supreme Court Justice Faith Ireland, who trades her billowing black robe for a weight-lifting suit several times a week.
Ireland modestly showed her first-place weight-lifting trophy in her office at Olympia's Temple of Justice this week. At 57, she was the only competitor in her age class at the Northwest Women's Regional Powerlifting Championships earlier this month, so winning wasn't hard.
Still, bench-pressing up to 115 pounds is quite a feat for a woman who suffered a nearly crippling back injury in a car accident 15 years ago.
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