Santa Clara County (San Jose)
SAN JOSE — Growing up in war-torn Iran in the mid-1980s, Judge Panteha Saban didn’t know if she’d live to see another day let alone a courtroom.
She was 7during the Iran-Iraq war and recalled spending most nights in a basement with her family, hoping to survive the bombing.
“I saw red flashes, heard sirens, screaming, people running around and thought, ‘This was it; we were going to die,... (continued)