Indian-American Woman Gets Re-elected As Texas County Judge, Creates History
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Ms Mathew has been a resident of Fort Bend in Texas for several years. (Representational)Kasaragod, Kerala: When she migrated to the US years ago with her parents after discontinuing studies in a village school in Kerala, Juli A Mathew never wanted to be a lawyer or judge.Some legal issues, which her father had faced in his business years ago, had sowed in her mind the first seeds of thought about the need to study law.Ms Mathew later served as an advocate for 15 long years in the US and created history by becoming the first Indian-American woman to be elected to a judge's bench there four years ago shattering the glass ceiling and defying odds.After taking oath as a Fort Bend County Judge in Texas in the US for the second consecutive time, she now feels that this is the best job ...