Q: What do you like best about being a judge?
A: The best thing about being a judge—I felt this way a little bit as a prosecutor—is that it’s my job to do the right thing every day. The difference with being a judge versus being a prosecutor is—I still feel that way; it’s my requirement to do the right thing every day, but—now I do it from a position that’s more neutral. I do love the ability to make sure that everybody who is represented in my courtroom, which means the defendant who is there, victims who may or may not be in my courtroom and the community in terms of community safety concerns, all get the best decision I can give them. And I love that. I think it is a very satisfying job to have to be able to say, “It is my job to go in and strive for justice every day.”
