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Jul. 1, 2010

Leland H. Tipton

Los Angeles County Judge Leland H. Tipton has a deliberative and measured approach to jurisprudence. He says that's a trait he learned in the Peace Corps.

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By Evan George

Daily Journal Staff Writer

BELLFLOWER - Four years in the Ugandan countryside in the late 1960s taught Judge Leland H. Tipton the virtue of being cautious.

There was the time he and his Peace Corps team got too close to a military camp of the Ugandan army and the soldiers mistook them for spies. A couple of them were arrested, but Tipton emerged unscathed.

"You learn to be polite and not say anything, to not get upset and just... (continued)

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