Tough and tireless, Kathleen Pozzi is transforming the Sonoma County Public Defender’s Office [PressDemocrat.com]
Kathleen Pozzi is like the mother Christopher Hohmann never had. When the 23-year-old former foster child got in trouble for the second time, the Sonoma County public defender took up his cause, keeping him out of jail and hooking him up with a program where he could learn job skills. The gravel-voiced attorney sold the idea to a judge, assuring that Hohmann had been coaxed back onto the right track. “I had to smack him around to make him listen to me,” she told Judge Dana Simonds earlier...