Judge Anderle looks on with visible admiration after Yassi told him that she did not attend law school. Like Abe Lincoln and many others in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Yassi participated in an apprentiship program instead of law school. For four years, Yassi worked and studied at the Sustainable Economies Law Center, Oakland, Calif. This program qualfied her to sit for the bar examiantion in July 2017. She was one of only 49.6% who passed the July bar. The judge made a special point to say that in all of his 21 years on the bench, she was the first that he had the honor to administer the oath to who did not attend law school. He said he couldn’t wait to tell his tennis buddies, Don Boden (a former Superior Court Judge) and Judge Bruce Dodds (retired). (©Stan Roden)