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Nov. 20, 2019

New Perspective

Judge Carolina Lugo, a former prosecutor, sees her role today as more rehabilitative.

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New Perspective

Carolina V. Lugo

Los Angeles County Superior Court

Career Highlights: Appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, 2018; Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, 200018. Law School: UCLA School of Law, 1998

Law School: UCLA School of Law
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GLENDALE — Things might have turned out differently for Carolina V. Lugo if as a kid she never met a law student who spoke Spanish.

Her father died of a heart attack at the age of 33, leaving a 7-year-old Lugo as the only English-speaking member of her family.

She remembers visiting the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles with her mother to sort out her family’s legal affairs. A young la... (continued)

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