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Title: Transgender woman leads race for judge
Post by: Shana A on June 16, 2010, 08:29:07 AM

Transgender woman leads race for judge

Matthai Kuruvila, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/15/BASR1DTCNE.DTL (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/15/BASR1DTCNE.DTL)

Victoria Kolakowski, who's running for Alameda Count Superior Court judge in a November runoff election, declares on her campaign Web site that she hopes to make history.

"If I am elected, I would be the first openly LGBT superior court judge elected in Alameda County, the first openly LGBT person elected countywide, and the first transgender trial court judge in the United States," it states.

The question is how much it should matter.