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May 12, 2011

Patti C. Ratekin

Superior Court Commissioner

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By Pat Alston

Daily Journal Staff Writer

VISTA - Patti Ratekin doesn't take rejection well. She doesn't take it at all.

When one door closes, she opens another.

Ratekin's persistence took her from junior clerk-typist as a teenage mother to courtroom clerk and family-law commissioner. Along the way, she raised two daughters, largely on her own.

Her life experiences - the victories and challenges - are "part of who I am,&qu... (continued)

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