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May 6, 2009

Helping the NextGeneration

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Joan Cartwright started her career in child education. Now, after decades on the bench, she's still working to help future generations.

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Helping the NextGeneration
Alameda County Superior Court
By Fiona Smith
Daily Journal Staff Writer

OAKLAND - In the early-1970s, Joan Cartwright had no thoughts of becoming a lawyer.

She was married with three young children, and while her husband went through medical school, she worked as a consultant at a university day care center and studied for a masters' degree in special education.

But then the women's liberation movement launched into full swing, and Cartwright decided to go to la... (continued)

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