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Oct. 18, 2011

Elaine M. Kiefer Johnson

Elaine Johnson grew up watching her father mete out justice. She vowed early in life to be a judge.

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Elaine M. Kiefer Johnson
Riverside County (Riverside)

By Brian Sumers

Daily Journal Staff Writer

RIVERSIDE - On the wall behind Judge Elaine Kiefer Johnson's desk is a picture of her father, a square-jawed man in a police uniform, his cap pulled down over his eyes and a cigarette dangling from his lips.

Without a college education, George Kiefer worked his way up to police chief in Greenfield, Mass., a city of about 17,000 in the northwest part of the state. And sometimes, usually when the stakes were s... (continued)

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