Santa Barbara County Superior Court
SANTA MARIA -- Superior Court Judge Denise M. Hippach saw herself as a woman of law when she was an 8th grader.
"We did a thing in my English class called a 'Me Book,'" she reminisced. "It's basically how you envision your life in the future."
Like opening a time capsule, she recently looked at this school project and said she found, to her amazement, that she wanted to be a distri... (continued)