U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Chooljian said she mirrors the approach of — and owes much of her success as a bench officer to — the late U.S. District Judge Alicemarie Huber Stotler, for whom Chooljian clerked after passing the bar in 1986.
A long list of federal judges, prosecutors and public defenders were mentored by Stotler, including Jean P. Rosenbluth, another U.S. magistrate judge on the Central District of Cal... (continued)