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Dec. 19, 2012

Susanne Fenstermacher

Susanne Fenstermacher followed her father's footsteps into the law and on to the bench.

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Susanne Fenstermacher
Superior Court Contra Costa County (Martinez)

By Fiona Smith

Daily Journal Staff Writer

MARTINEZ - When Susanne Fenstermacher was 4 years old, she knew she wanted to be an attorney and work with her father.

Her plans solidified when she was 8 and would regularly come and watch her father, Oliver Fenstermacher, argue cases in Martinez's Wakefield Taylor courthouse.

"It was so weird to see this man trying the case that wasn't my warm, cuddly dad," Fenstermacher said. "It... (continued)

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