SEATTLE — King County’s best employee, Errol the Courthouse Dog, is hanging up his collar and starting his golden years.

Errol, who celebrated his 12th birthday Monday, has spent a decade in the King County Superior Court comforting children, people with developmental disabilities and older people when they are called to testify or provide witness interviews. The black Lab/golden retriever mix (aka a “goldador”) was honored Tuesday by the Metropolitan King County Council, which decreed Oct. 21, 2025, Errol the Courthouse Dog Day.

King County pioneered the use of courtroom canines in 2004. Handler and senior deputy prosecuting attorney Page Ulrey worked with Ellie, the country’s first courthouse dog, who held the post until she died in 2015. Errol took over for Ellie, and is the nation’s

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