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Jan. 12, 2022

‘Stickler for the rules’

San Diego Judge Katherine A. Bacal says she follows the rules to ensure fairness

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San Diego County (San Diego)

SAN DIEGO — Legal careers are a hallmark of Judge Katherine A. Bacal’s family. She, her brother, sister and mother attended law schools at around the same time and became attorneys.

Her brother, Rick, is a criminal defense attorney, her sister, Susan, is a justice of the peace and her mother, Eva, now in her 80s, is a public defender. All of them, whose surname is Bacal, live in Arizona, where the judge grew up in Tucson.

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