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Jan. 10, 2000

Commissioner Carol K. Allen

It is serious business to be a pioneer or a pathfinder in one's chosen profession. But Carol K. Allen, 53, the first woman to practice law in pastoral San Luis Obispo County, can laugh about it because, well - it had its moments.
The year was 1973. Allen was a fresh-faced attorney, three years out of the UCLA Law School, making an appearance on behalf of a client in the Justice of the Peace Court in Guadalupe, a small town that time all but forgot near the SLO-Sa... (continued)

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