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Sep. 6, 2024

U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson's best advice: Find a mentor

The federal judge says mentors helped her in life and career, so she gives advice in once-a-month sessions to lawyers, law students and undergraduates about the nuts and bolts of good practice.

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U.S. District Judge Trina L. Thompson's induction ceremony was hosted and catered by Old Skool Cafe, a restaurant in San Francisco's Bayview Hunter's Point neighborhood run by foster and at-risk children.

"The community caused me to become a judge," she said, noting that teachers and mentors had fallen into her life when she most needed them. "The community invested in me, and I can't pay all those people back, but I can pay it forward,&q... (continued)

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