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Cassandra Lopez-Shaw, who won a four-year seat for Snohomish County Superior Court position 8 in November, defeating Robert Grant, has died Thursday, Feb. 3, from cancer at age 54.

Lopez-Shaw was scheduled to speak Saturday, March 5, at Edmonds International Women's Day, an annual event planned by Edmonds Planning Board Chair Alicia Crank. She was schedule as one of the members of the judges panel.

"I was in awe of her strength and tenacity in battling cancer while serving the community as an attorney and then as a Superior Court judge," Crank wrote on Twitter.

"Cassandra was the perfect e...