Janice Law

Janice Law is the author of two other nonfiction books: Sex Appealed: Was the U.S. Supreme Court Fooled? (2005) and Yield: A Judge's Fir$t-Year Diary (2006).Both books have been featured on C-SPAN2 Book TV and at several national book festivals where Law has also served on literary panels.When Law graduated in 1963 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a B.A. in English and journal-ism, she was the second person in all generations on both sides of her family to receive an undergraduate college degree.She worked as a reporter for various newspapers across the United States. Her work is included in Professional Newswriting by Dr. Hiley Ward (Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, Inc. 1985), The Mass Media, 2nd edition, by Dr. William L. Rivers (Harper & Row, 1975); and The Effete Conspiracy and Other Crimes by the Press by Ben H. Bagdikian (Harper & Row, 1972).In 1976, she entered Nova Law School in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., working the night police desk as a reporter at the Fort Lauderdale News to support herself during her first year of law school.When she received her J.D. degree in 1979, she was the first person in her family to earn a professional college degree.Law worked as a state prosecutor in Bartow and Fort Lauderdale, Florida until 1985 when she moved back to Houston, Texas. She served as staff attorney for the federal judges in the Southern District of Texas from 1985-88. In 1990, she moved to McAllen, Texas to serve as an assistant United States attorney. From 1991-1998 she worked in Houston as a criminal defense attorney for the indigent, until appointed by the mayor as an Associate Municipal Judge for the City of Houston.In 1998, she was elected to a four-year term as judge in Harris County (Houston) Texas County Criminal Court No. 5. She now serves as a visiting judge for Texas judges who are vacationing, ill or absent.