Stanislaus County (Modesto)
MODESTO — When he became the first Sikh bench officer in Stanislaus County, word of Judge Sandip S. Sandhu’s appointment traveled fast.
“My parents were getting phone calls from England and Canada ... They were hearing the news on Punjabi radio,” Sandhu said, referring to a region of India and Pakistan with the world’s largest concentration of adherents of the Sikh religion.
While it was... (continued)