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Event aims to encourage young people interested in law

By Becca Robbins, Columbian staff reporter

Published: November 2, 2023, 7:03pm

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U.S. Magistrate Judge Youlee Yim You, left, talks to a group of students Thursday during the Color of Justice program at the Clark County Courthouse. The program, which started this year, invited middle school students to listen to a diverse panel of attorneys and judges speak about their legal careers. (Taylor Balkom/The Columbian) Photo Gallery

Panelists at Clark County’s first Color of Justice event told a gallery of middle school students Thursday about being a series of firsts: the county’s first Black Superior Court judge, the first Asian American on the federal bench in Oregon and the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe to sit on a state Supreme Court.