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Nov. 3, 2011

Steff Padilla

Judge Steff Padilla translates her civil rights-era childhood into helping people overcome problems.

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Steff R. Padilla

Los Angeles County Superior Court (Van Nuys)
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By Sean Windle

Daily Journal Staff Writer

VAN NUYS - Coming to Los Angeles was the best decision Superior Court Commissioner Steff Padilla says she ever made.

It was 1991 and Padilla, then 30, decided to pack up YipYap, her Yorkie-Toy Poodle mix and leave Arkansas for the West Coast.

"When you don't grow up in a community that is diverse and that is what you want, it's hard," Padilla said. "I knew career-wise that I had gon... (continued)

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