SANTA ANA -- Twenty years before Judge Deborah C. Servino took the bench, a 10th grade government class assignment introduced her to the law. She was to study proceedings at a courthouse and interview someone in the courtroom, and the judge she picked heartily endorsed his profession.
"He said, 'If you love to be intellectually stimulated, the law is the job for you, because the law's always changing, and there's always a... (continued)