U.S. District Judge Trina L. Thompson's induction ceremony was hosted and catered by Old Skool Cafe, a restaurant in San Francisco's Bayview Hunter's Point neighborhood run by foster and at-risk children.
"The community caused me to become a judge," she said, noting that teachers and mentors had fallen into her life when she most needed them. "The community invested in me, and I can't pay all those people back, but I can pay it forward,&q... (continued)