Of all the kind words said at the June 20 investiture of U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras, most were directed at the new judge, but he and other speakers had quite a few for his mother, Amparo Contreras, as well.

Contreras, a former civil division chief with the U.S. attorney’s office, told a standing-room-only crowd at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia how his mother came to the United States from Cuba in the 1950s, escaping poverty and other hardships.

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