AFFILIATION: Professional Mediation Associates
AGE: 56
LAW SCHOOL: UC-Davis School of Law, 1978
PREVIOUS JUDICIAL EXPERIENCE: None

On the wide field of Bay Area mediators, Teresa Carey was one of the first to suit up. It was nearly three decades ago — before litigators embraced the practice as a way to save clients money, and courts turned to it as a way to cut down on crushing dockets.