Yvette Chevalier Lopez brings an excess of 25 years of working as a helping professional to the bench. She has 25 years of hands-on experience as a helping professional teacher, counselor, child protection manager, supervisor for mentally ill felon program, director of juvenile justice and social services. She has never met her biological father and doesn’t know who he is or was. She was raised by a single mother who did not attend high school. Her first language is Spanish and she was born in P ...