NORWALK — Amy Yerkey has only been a superior court judge for a year, but she’s been preparing for the job since she was in middle school. At 12, she was already memorizing parts of the Constitution and staging her own imagined law classes.
“It’s kind of dorky,” said Yerkey from her chambers in the Norwalk Courthouse.
By 34, Yerkey was an administrative law judge with the California ... (continued)