Orange County (Orange)
ORANGE -- Seven years into her family law calendar, Judge Daphne G. Sykes describes herself as a lifer for the assignment.
But before her bench appointment a decade ago, she didn't know much about the field.
"I didn't know enough about it to be nervous," she said, until she had her first exposure in judges' college. "I must have said something short of, 'Excuse me, hell no,'" Sykes joked... (continued)