San Mateo County (Redwood City)
There’s a calm in which Commissioner Rachel E. Holt talks about presiding over 300 cases on four different calendars every week.
She alternates between taking pleas on felony cases, a multitude of disputes in family law, small claims, and the obligatory traffic court assignments. As she explained all this recently, in between preparing to cover a domestic violence calendar, the phone rings. It’s her clerk asking about a ... (continued)