
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - As a girl, Marlene Hertoghe wanted to be a lawyer so badly it irked her when she was given the part of a judge in a junior high school play.
"I remember being disappointed I was the one making the decisions and not getting to argue," she said.
Fast forward some 25 years, and now, Hertoghe is relishing her real-life role as a judicial officer hearing juvenile dependency cases... (continued)