Los Angeles County (Monterey Park)
By Emma Gallegos
Daily Journal Staff Writer
MONTEREY PARK - Margaret S. Henry, a career civil litigator, never expected to preside over a dependency courtroom when she took the bench nine years ago.
On the fifth floor of the Edmund D. Edelman Children's Court, Henry's bench is lower to the ground than other courts, and its edges are rounded - a symbol, Henry says, that the work in her courtroom should be more collaborative than adversarial.
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