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May 18, 2011

Julia Spain

Julia Spain After a winding path of a legal career, Judge Julia Spain takes pride in seeing her decisions questioned and validated at the highest levels of the court system.

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By Emily Green

Daily Journal Staff Writer

HAYWARD - In 2002, Judge Julia Spain sat in the audience of the state Supreme Court watching oral arguments. The justices were presiding over a case that originated in her courtroom - a custody battle involving a 6-year-old boy.

The issue was whether to award custody to a man who had raised the boy as his own but was neither his biological nor adoptive father. The boy's mother was unable to care for him, and ... (continued)

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