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Jul. 29, 2020

Practicing Patience

Judge Vicki Ashworth applies techniques from family law to her criminal calendar cases.

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Practicing Patience

Vicki Ashworth

El Dorado County (Placerville)

Career Highlights: Career Highlights: Elected to the El Dorado County Superior Court, June 2014; deputy district attorney, El Dorado County, 1999-2014; deputy district attorney, Amador County, 1997-99

Law School: University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
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As a teenager, Judge Vicki Ashworth knew more about cars than schoolmates a few grades above her who were already taking their driver's license tests.

"I wouldn't say I knew how to resurface heads or anything like that, but I knew how to change brakes, tires," she said.

That's because her father not only built race car engines for a living, he was a racer in the National Hot Rod Associat... (continued)

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