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Sep. 25, 2020

Controlled Conversation

OC Judge Daphne Sykes changed her perception of family law and doesn't want to leave.

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Controlled Conversation

Daphne G. Sykes

Orange County (Orange)

Career Highlights: Appointed to the Orange County Superior Court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2010; deputy district attorney, 2007-10; sole practitioner, Rancho Santa Margarita, 2005-07; partner, Cheathem, Phillips & Scott, Los Angeles, 2002-06; assistant U.S. attorney, San Diego, 2000-02; deputy city attorney, Compton, 1993-98; deputy district attorney, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, 1990-93

Law School: The City University of New York School of Law
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ORANGE -- Seven years into her family law calendar, Judge Daphne G. Sykes describes herself as a lifer for the assignment.

But before her bench appointment a decade ago, she didn't know much about the field.

"I didn't know enough about it to be nervous," she said, until she had her first exposure in judges' college. "I must have said something short of, 'Excuse me, hell no,'" Sykes joked... (continued)

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