Cynthia Ming-Mei Lee, the former prosecutor who became the first Asian American woman elected presiding judge of San Francisco Superior Court, announced her retirement from the bench this week, a court spokesman said Wednesday.

Lee served as a trial court judge for 25 years. Over that time she guided the court through historic budget cuts and survived an attempt by public defenders to oust her and three other Republican-appointed colleagues.

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