U.S. Northern District of California (Oakland)
By Rebecca Beyer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
OAKLAND - When Donna M. Ryu decided in 2009 to apply to become a magistrate judge, all her friends thought she was crazy.
Not because they weren't sure how she'd do on the bench, but because taking the bench would mean leaving a job she thoroughly enjoyed.
"But you love your job," Ryu remembers them saying.
Ryu, then a clinical professor at UC Hastings College of the Law, could... (continued)