“If I were to plan that out, that would never have looked like the best time to have children,” says Jessica Kruse, Associate Circuit Judge, Division 3 in Christian County. Kruse and her husband had their first child while she was still in law school. “It really put things in perspective when I was looking for careers,” says Kruse. “I was always looking at it as a mom as opposed to an attorney who may have a family at some point, someday.”
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