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Jul. 22, 2007

Pursuing Change

The Free Speech Movement at Berkeley propelled Joel Pressman into a legal career, and as a judge he says he is 'doing his best to make the world a better place.'

Read more about Joel M. Pressman...
San Diego Superior Court
Judicate West
By Robert Iafolla
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      VISTA - As a college freshman at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1964, San Diego Superior Court Judge Joel Pressman studied the intellectual history of Western Europe. But outside the classroom, he found something far more engaging than Enlightenment thinkers and the Royal Society.
      That fall, Pressman and thousands of hi... (continued)

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