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Jul. 12, 2017

Front Row Seat

Intrigue of human drama first drew Judge Michael B. Sheltzer to the law, then to the bench.

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Front Row Seat
Tulare County Superior Court

PORTERVILLE — Michael Sheltzer was a probation officer in Louisiana with an undergraduate philosophy degree when he realized a career in law wasn’t so impossible.
“I saw really bad lawyering, and I said, ‘You know something, I can do at least as bad as that,’” said Sheltzer, now supervising judge in Tulare County’s South County Justice Center, a new $93 million facility that is unlike anything in surrounding rural Porterville.
The human storyline of the law appealed t... (continued)

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