His father worked as a fruit peddler and milkman — a job that would profoundly shape Caprio’s philosophy and decisions later as a judge.

As a child, Caprio would wake at 4 a.m. to help his father on the milk truck before heading to school. He remembers how his father would continue deliveries even to families who couldn’t pay.

“My father never stopped delivering milk to anyone who had a child,” Caprio told the Associated Press in 2002. He continued, “He would take money out of his own pocket and tell the company, ’They made a payment