
By Paul Jones
Daily Journal Staff Writer
VALLEJO - Ramona Garrett didn't originally plan on going into law - she studied philosophy in college. The Solano County criminal court judge, who came from a poor family and was its first member to get a college degree, went into sales for a cable company in the 1970s and expected to make a living that way. But her family's economic problems, combined with a conversation she had with a lawyer client, convinced he... (continued)