
By Connie Lopez
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Growing up in Michigan, Judge Shelly Torrealba would rise at 5 a.m. to milk the cows.
"I've been chased by bulls, saved from stalled tractors. ... I really am a small-town girl from nowhere," she said.
Now Torrealba presides over misdemeanor trials at the Criminal Justice Center in downtown Los Angeles.
She credits her Midwest upbringing for her patience and understand... (continued)