Alameda County (Oakland)
OAKLAND — Judge Colin Bowen hails from Wolverhampton, an English city that’s earned its nickname for a concentration of blue-collar and factory jobs.
“It’s called the ‘black country’ because of all the factories and the soot,” he explained. “And you see how class really impacts people from an early age.”
Bowen grew up in a working-class family with a bus driver father and a mother who wa... (continued)