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Retired judge touches the lives of women a world away
or retired San Diego Superior Court Judge Susan Finlay, a friendship formed in 1959 led to the launch of a global partnership serving the needs of villagers in a remote region of By Jodi Cleesattle Tanzania 50 years later. Supervising Deputy Attorney General for the California Finlay and her friend, Diane Department of Justice Raleigh, met during a study
abroad program – Experiment in International Living – in Italy in 1959. Finlay went on to become a lawyer and a judge, serving on the bench from 1980 to 2000 and presiding over cases as an assigned judge for another 12 years. Raleigh joined the Peace Corps, became a psychologist, and helped found the graduate school of psychology that
