Brighton Publishing Releases “Lady Law” by author Sonja White David

Feb. 11, 2012 - PRLog -- CHANDLER (AZ)—Brighton Publishing LLC announced the E-book release of “Lady Law,” by Sonja White David. Lady Law is the story of an amazing jurist who broke down barriers and forever changed the role women would play in America’s legal system. This highly-anticipated work is available in E-book at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other leading E-book retailers.
Born in 1903 on the southern border of the Arizona Territory in the mining town of Douglas, Lorna Lockwood’s childhood reality was the Old West we know today only in the movies: shoot-outs over gambling debts in saloons and dance halls and violence from the Mexican Revolution spilling across the border. In 1913 when Lorna’s attorney father left his law practice in Douglas to become a Superior Court Judge, the family moved to the county seat of Tombstone. Lorna always loved to visit her father’s law office; she loved even more visiting the Cochise County Courthouse to watch Judge Lockwood preside over trials. She thought the law was the most important work anyone could do.
At the age of ten Lorna decided to grow up to be a lawyer and judge like her father. It would not be easy. Despite graduating near the top of her class, the dean told Lorna “law school was no place for a woman.” Lorna was forced to present her case again and again before her eventual admission into the college of law. Again, though she graduated near the top of her class and was quickly admitted to the Arizona Bar, no law firm would hire a female attorney. Fourteen years would pass before she would practice law.
But Lorna Lockwood’s time would come, and she would make an impact on the legal system unlike any attorney before—or since. From Tombstone to a White House “short list” for the U.S. Supreme Court, “Lady Law” tells the amazing story of one of America’s most famous and influential lawyers—and women—who helped shape the direction of Arizona and our nation.
The author, Sonja White David, at the age of ten wrote a play based upon the Book of Ruth for her youth group to perform for the Wednesday night pot-luck supper at the church. At the age of twelve she wrote a weekly column about her junior high school for the town newspaper, the Chandler Arizonan. When she was seventeen she edited the school literary magazine, the Desert Breeze. After she attended the Bennington College Summer Writer’s Workshop in Vermont where she studied under Alan Cheuse, author and book reviewer for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, she wrote book reviews for the Denver Post and feature articles for Bloomsbury Review and Denver Magazine. Lady Law is her first published book.
Sonja lives in the Arizona desert with her husband, Richard, her granddaughter, Jennie Jane, and her black Bombay cat, Sheba. She is currently at work on a memoir about her five years on the San Carlos Apache Reservation.

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