Fifty-eight articles. That is how many posts on olympicherald.com, the website operated by Anthony Tomashefsky of Sequim, mention Brian Parker, the family law court commissioner of Clallam County Superior Court, according to a name count across the site's archive.
First, who Brian Parker actually is, because the blog never gets it right. He is not an elected county commissioner. Clallam County's elected commissioners are Mark Ozias, Randy Johnson and Mike French. Parker is an appointed judicial officer. The Superior Court announced his selection on Sept. 24, 2024, and he took the bench Jan. 13, 2025.
His credentials are a matter of public record: a J.D. from the University of Alabama School of Law in 2003; an LL.M. in international law from the Australian National University in 2005; admission to the Washington State Bar in December 2008; roughly two years as a Snohomish County Superior Court commissioner pro tempore, presiding over domestic, civil, guardianship, probate, child-support and protection-order calendars; service as a court-appointed guardian ad litem; training in mediation and collaborative family law. When the Clallam County bench chose him, he was practicing at Port Gardner Law Group in Everett, an outside candidate with prior commissioner experience, selected over any local insider.
The ruling that made him a target
Court records show what Parker did to earn 58 articles.
On Aug. 26, 2025, he presided over the full hearing on Benjamin Mavy's petition for a stalking and anti-harassment protection order against Tomashefsky. "Respondent did not attend the hearing on this matter," Parker's memorandum states. "Consequently, a decision was rendered on the records and pleadings on file herein." He granted the order.
His Aug. 27, 2025 memorandum opinion explains why. "In addition to the petition and responsive pleadings, I considered some 55 pages of emails between Respondent and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, as well as other Lincoln County, Wyoming government officials," the commissioner wrote. "These emails contain extensive descriptions of Petitioner's activities, movements, location, and travel plans. Petitioner states under oath he did not provide this information to Respondent."
The opinion continues: "The issue isn't the reporting of suspected violations by Petitioner to out-of-state authorities, it is the level of detail Respondent had about Petitioner's movements and plans (which were not shared with him by Petitioner), the persistence and intensity in which Respondent displayed in attempting to pressure the Wyoming Game and Fish Department or other Wyoming law enforcement to not only sanction Petitioner, but to arrest him in front of his children at a family funeral." Concluding, Parker wrote: "both Respondent's methods and his motives cross the boundaries of the permissible."
On Oct. 21, 2025, Judge W. Brent Basden upheld the order, finding the record "amply supports" its conclusions.
The smears, and the record
The blog's centerpiece claims collapse against the documents:
"Arrested for felony perjury." A federal court order. Judge Barbara J. Rothstein, W.D. Washington, Sept. 3, 2025, recounts what actually happened: an Everett police officer reviewed six perjury accusations from a litigant named Gina Bloom, concluded five did not warrant further investigation, and referred one for charging consideration. The Everett City Prosecutor's Office declined to file any charges on Dec. 4, 2023. No charges, no conviction, and no arrest appears anywhere in the court record. Snohomish County briefly paused Parker's pro tem assignments during the review, then reinstated him after the declination.
The guardian ad litem "conspiracy." The federal court found the plaintiff's own exhibits contradicted the claim that Parker was corruptly "handpicked" as GAL: the court's coordinator first appointed a different evaluator, and when she was unavailable, it was Bloom's own attorney who proposed Parker. Bloom's two formal grievances against him were reviewed and found "unfounded" in a Jan. 24, 2023 letter. Her federal suit, Bloom v. State of Washington, was dismissed with prejudice, the claims against the judicial officers on May 5, 2025, and the remainder, on her third attempt, on Sept. 3, 2025. Rothstein described some of the plaintiff's assertions about Parker as "demonstrably false."
The "spitting" story. Published Jan. 13, 2026, exactly one year after Parker took the bench, the claim rests on a single unnamed accuser, described only as "a local resident," alleging a parking dispute. No police report, charge, arrest or court case connected to the allegation appears in any public record, and no legitimate news outlet has ever reported it. The blog's own timeline piece concedes the single-source sourcing.
Virtually every "scandal" theme traces to that one source: the losing party in a Snohomish County custody case whose federal lawsuit over the same events was thrown out with prejudice. Sympathetic national pieces in The 19th, InvestigateWest and The Imprint all ran before the Sept. 3, 2025 dismissal and did not independently verify the claims against Parker.
A complaint is an accusation, not a finding. In the still-pending state-court suit, the blog itself reported that Parker and Port Gardner filed a 40-page answer on May 19, 2026, categorically denying the conspiracy, harassment and evidence-fabrication allegations, asserting quasi-judicial immunity and litigation privilege, and seeking sanctions for frivolous litigation.
What is not known
The court confirmed on Feb. 10, 2026, that Parker was no longer employed; no reason was released publicly, and TROH does not speculate on personnel matters. What is documented: the only public attribution of cause comes from the blog that had already published dozens of pieces about him. The court has since appointed a successor with more than three decades of experience, reported neutrally by MyClallamCounty.
Notably, the Peninsula Daily News, the county's paper of record, never reported any of the blog's Parker claims. The entire negative narrative exists on the Olympic Herald and an allied blog.
A commissioner's answer to accusations is supposed to live in his orders. Parker's is five pages long, filed Aug. 27, 2025, and a superior court judge upheld it.
This article relies on public court records and public complaints. TROH welcomes a response from Mr. Tomashefsky and will publish it in full.