Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Gabriela H. Shapiro oversees a team that manages dependency cases that fall under the Indian Child Welfare Act at the Edmund D. Edelman Children's Court.
"I love tradition, spirituality and culture, and that was one of my first draws when the presiding and supervising judges in dependency asked me if I would be interested in being the backup for the ICWA court," she said. "I was det... (continued)