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Dec. 12, 2018

Trying Something New

Santa Clara County Judge Elizabeth Peterson volunteered for a family violence court post.

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Santa Clara County (San Jose)

SAN JOSE — Judge Elizabeth Peterson remembers riding the horses on her family’s farm growing up.

The Midwestern native fondly recalled memories of home in Fairmont, a small, rural town in Minnesota right next to the Iowa border.

But Peterson, now on the Santa Clara County Superior Court, said she could feel there was more to the world — more places to see, people to meet and things to... (continued)

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