LOS ANGELES -- Judge Holly A. Thomas is new to family law, but it didn't take long for her to learn a divorce proceeding could be one of the most traumatic events of peoples' lives.
A former civil rights attorney, Thomas said the rigors of her day-to-day work in the New York state appellate court helped her become a quick study.
"So I might be doing a house case one day, a voting case th... (continued)