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Oct. 29, 2014

Gilbert A. Romero

A college prep class steered Ventura County Judge Gilbert A. Romero toward a professional career.

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Gilbert A. Romero

Gilbert A. Romero

Ventura County (Ventura)

Career Highlights: Appointed to the Ventura County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, Nov. 29, 2012; deputy district attorney, Ventura County, 1999-2012

Law School: UC Hastings College of the Law, 1998
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By Matt Hamilton

Daily Journal Staff Writer

VENTURA - Judge Gilbert A. Romero's path to the bench of the Ventura County Superior Court began in an unlikely place: the barrio of La Colonia in Oxnard.

From the 1970s onward, the neighborhood was beset by drug trafficking and gang violence. His father was mostly absent, and because of his mom's struggles with addiction, Romero was raised by his grandmother who toiled in the fields.

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