The son of Vietnamese farmers, Nho Trong Nguyen has taken a complicated journey to the Orange Court Superior Court. Before being airlifted out of Saigon, he served as forester, soldier and congressman. Before becoming a judge, he worked as a welfare officer, computer analyst and state deputy attorney general. “My God,” he remarked, referring to a stint cleaning toilets, “I have freedom – freedom!”
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By Pat Alston
Daily Journal Staff Writer
WESTMINSTER - Had things been different, Nho Trong Nguyen might have grown up to become a successful rice farmer in northern Vietnam, just like his father and grandfather.
Nguyen might never have fled his home, fought for democracy on military and political battlefields, or started life over on foreign soil.
He might never have become the first Vietnamese-American judge in Southern California.
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