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TULARE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A teen from Tulare County is present the youngest to walk the California barroom exam, breaking a grounds antecedently held by her ain brother, the Tulare County District Attorney’s bureau announced Wednesday.
Officials accidental 17-year-old Sophia Park, bushed her brother's grounds by lone a fewer months. Sophia was 17 years and 8 months aged erstwhile she passed the exam connected November 8, 2024. Her brother, Peter Park was 17 years and 11 months aged when helium passed the exam successful 2023.
Sophia started instrumentality schoolhouse astatine the property of 13 successful 2020 portion attending inferior precocious schoolhouse astatine Oxford Academy successful the Orange County metropolis of Cypress. In 2022, she graduated precocious schoolhouse aft passing the California High School Proficiency Exam.
She past graduated from Northwestern California University School of Law successful 2024.
At property 16, she gained hands-on acquisition arsenic a summertime intern astatine the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. Since 2024, Park has been employed arsenic a instrumentality clerk for the Tulare County District Attorney’s Office.
She plans to articulation the Tulare County District Attorney's Office arsenic a prosecutor- just similar her brother.
“Sophia’s astonishing accomplishments talk for themselves, and we could not beryllium prouder arsenic an bureau family,” said Tulare County District Attorney Tim Ward. "We are excited to beryllium portion of Sophia and Peter’s continued success.”
Sophia is connected way to beryllium sworn successful arsenic a licensed lawyer successful March 2025 aft turning 18.
