Superior Court Contra Costa County (Martinez)
By Amy Yarbrough
Daily Journal Staff Writer
MARTINEZ - Judges don't typically throw up their hands to volunteer for a juvenile delinquency or dependency assignment. But Barbara C. Hinton had been crossing her fingers she would get one.
Appointed to the bench in October of 2008, the Contra Costa County Superior Court judge spent her first two years on the job handling mostly criminal matters at the courthouses in Walnut Creek and Richmond. She got her... (continued)
