HEMET -- The immigration attorney who helped Riverside County Superior Court Judge Marie E. Wood and her family remain in the United States is also the one who offered the first opportunity to get into the legal field.
Born in Guaymas, a fishing port in Mexico, Wood said she learned what helping others meant when she arrived in the U.S. at 12 -- along with her mother and seven other siblings - to reunite with her father, who was... (continued)