Santa Barbara Superior
SANTA BARBARA — Superior Court Judge Von T. Nguyen Deroian was 6 months old when her family barely made it to one of the final boats fleeing Saigon to escape the communist takeover in 1975 soon after the Vietnam War ended.
Her father, who was in the army and fought alongside the U.S. military, managed to get his family out of the country to embark on a harrowing voyage to San Diego’s Camp Pendleton, where they stayed wit... (continued)