
Daily Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - There was a time when dressing for success meant head-to-toe sparkle for Karla Kerlin. She was a Las Vegas showgirl. Nowadays, Kerlin dons the simple black robe of a Superior Court judge. Before her appointment to the bench last November, Kerlin spent 18 years with the district attorney's office, prosecuting alleged child abusers, rapists and killers - some of whom made interna... (continued)