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A New Mexico judge knows what to do
When Supreme Court Justice Shannon Bacon was a practicing lawyer, she learned a lot about people who found themselves homeless and the problems they faced.
Before Bacon was on the New Mexico Supreme Court she served as a District Court Judge and before that as a practicing lawyer, who at one point worked at Cuidando Los Ninos in Albuquerque. Her focus at that time was on homeless youth.
In her efforts to champion the Access to Justice Commission, Bacon told the Gallup Sun July 8 about the many civil legal issues people at or below the poverty line can find themselves facing: things like eviction, employment problems, child custody, divorce...