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Allen Superior Court Judge Charles Pratt talks with two of more than 30 children united with “forever families” at an Adoption Day event in 2019.
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Sunday, May 16, 2021 1:00 am
Putting families first
MATTHEW LEBLANC | The Journal Gazette
It s mid-afternoon on a recent Thursday, and Judge Charles Pratt is taking a break to chat.
He has been in cleanup mode – ridding his second-floor office at the Allen County Courthouse of case law printed long ago and stacked on a table toward the back of the room; emptying filing cabinets; preparing to write the final orders of a legal career that s spanned four decades.