Career Highlights: Retired. Elevated through unification to Los Angeles Superior Court, 2000; elected commissioner by judges of Lancaster Municipal Court, 1992; sole practitioner, 1976-80 and 1984-92.
Law School: San Fernando Valley College of Law
It was the young woman's second probation violation, but Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Cathrin L. DeVoe wasn't about to give up on her.
"You're 22, and you've already got a police record," she said to the handcuffed woman dressed in jailhouse blue.
DeVoe, 59, pointed to some photographs on the wall above her bailiff's desk -- photographs of other young drug-addicted women.
"The top one is dead," she sa... (continued)
