2 - ursday, October 19, 2017 - Women In Business - Red Bluff Daily News
Being a good business woman
By Julie Zeeb
jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com
@DN_Zeeb on Twitter
If you ask Cheryl Forbes
why she became a law-
yer or why she selected
estate planning as her
chosen path, it all boils
down to helping others.
Something that is sec-
ond nature to her, having
been taught early by her
father's example, and
something she feels is
essential to being a good
business woman.
"I wanted to make the
world a better place and
I've done that," Forbes
said.
Working with a juvenile
justice diversion program
counseling first time of-
fenders that saw a one
percent rate of those
re-offending after going
through the program in
a time where the recid-
ivism rate was normally
85 percent to working with
Robert Fellmeth at the
Center For Public Interest
Law to create the first child
advocacy clinic are just a
few of the projects Forbes
has taken on. She also
has worked on creating
various pieces of legis-
lation, including one that
allows attorneys to appear
in court by telephone that
saves clients money and
attorneys time.
Born and raised on a
ranch in Laverne in Los
Angeles County, Forbes
attended Cal State Ful-
lerton. There she earned
her bachelors degree,
majoring in Criminology
and Political Science with
a minor in dance, which
at the time was the only
criminal justice program
in the entire state.
She graduated from Cal
State Fullerton in 1993,
finishing in just three and
a half years, going on to
law school at the Univer-
sity of San Diego.
It was her physics pro-
fessor that gave her the
confidence to go on to
law school and taught her
the value of never saying
I can't, she said.
"One thing I learned
from my physics profes-
sor in high school was
if you think you can't do
something you already
have a strike against you,"
Forbes said. "Instead I
say I can and figure a way
out."
