Mary Ann Walker, Senora Defensor

A childhood in Mexico has enabled Mary Ann Walker to go from court interpreter to legal facilitator for California’s Spanish-speaking community by Yvonne Liu Mary Ann Walker may call herself one of the slowest swimmers in her Pacific Ocean swimming group, but her devotion to the half-mile journey from RAT Beach to Torrance Beach never wavers. Two mornings a week in the summer, she slips into the cold ocean and swims. “I’m just being happy,” said the Palos Verdes Estates resident