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Sep. 30, 2020

Headline for judicial profile was tone deaf

I was dumbfounded by the “Daddy’s Gill” headline in the Daily Journal’s Sept. 28 profile of Kern County Superior Court Judge Susan M. Gill — an obvious play on “daddy’s girl.”

Holly O. Whatley

Colantuono, Highsmith & Whatley PC

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Email: hwhatley@chwlaw.us

University of Texas SOL; Austin TX

I was dumbfounded by the "Daddy's Gill" headline in the Daily Journal's Sept. 28 profile of Kern County Superior Court Judge Susan M. Gill -- an obvious play on "daddy's girl," a phrase that often connotes a girl doted on and excessively indulged by her father or one who received everything she has from her father instead of achieving it on her own.

With this tone-deaf...

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