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LOS ANGELES - Long before Tricia Ann Bigelow became a judge, she worked as a waitress at Bobby McGee's in Newport Beach. They called her Barbed Wire.

Tricia A. Bigelow

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By Rebecca Beyer
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - Long before Tricia Ann Bigelow became a judge, she worked as a waitress at Bobby McGee's in Newport Beach. They called her Barbed Wire.

Bigelow carried a lasso and a stick pony and sassed customers into giving her tips, which, along with her small hourly wages, helped pay her way through college and law school.

Curled up in a chair in her chambers at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in downtown... (continued)