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Jan. 13, 2010

Marie Dandona

Jean Marie Dandona's life has taken her around the world, giving her a keen perspective of the cases she hears in her still-new role as a Santa Barbara County Superior Court judge.

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By Pat Alston

Daily Journal Staff Writer

SANTA BARBARA - For a little girl like Jean Marie Dandona, every day in the Philippines dawned with excitement.

Dandona was 4 or 5 when her father, a career military officer, was transferred to the Philippines to run the Officer's Club at Clark Air Base.

Now a Superior Court judge, Dandona has vivid memories of the Manila street scene, "people carrying things, selling things," she said. "... (continued)

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