
Daily Journal Staff Writer
FRESNO - For the son of an appellate justice, Judge Kent Hamlin's path into law and onto the bench was an unexpectedly wayward one: college dropout, shipping clerk, LPGA golf caddy, olive grower.
"I worked with a lot of working Joes and that's really what I consider myself to be," said Hamlin, who was elected to the Fresno County Superior Court in 1998, after 10 years as a lawyer. ... (continued)