Michele Locke: A Former Judge on Conduct in Family Court

Michele Locke became a judge at thirty-one and spent years presiding over a domestic violence court, handling roughly nine out of ten of her county's protective orders along with the custody and family cases that came out of them. She has since returned to private practice, and she talks about family court as a second battlefield, one that can retraumatize the very people it is supposed to protect. Michele Locke is a Texas family law attorney and a former associate family court judge. Her jur...