When she moved to Ventura County in 2009, Charmaine H. Buehner found a bench heavily weighted with white male judges from the ranks of the district attorney’s office. In the county’s 148-year history, there had been seven women judges on the Ventura County Superior Court.
Buehner, who has a black belt in Taekwondo, set out to kick aside that statistic by joining Women Lawyers of Ventura County. With a newly formed board of activ... (continued)