Your Honor, Your Honor: A Journey Through Grief to Restorative Justice - Hardcover

Lloyd, Judge Leonia J

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1663201846 ISBN 13: 9781663201843

Publisher: iUniverse, 2020

Synopsis

In 1949, twin sisters came into this world surprising everybody including their parents and the doctor because he had heard only one heartbeat.

On a path ordered by God, these twins touched the lives of many in their roles as teachers, attorneys, and judges. The rocky road they followed to achieve these professions was God's way of preparing them for life.

In Your Honor, Your Honor, author Judge Leonia J. Lloyd tells the story of this dynamic duo whose professional careers led them to become models, schoolteachers, and entertainment lawyers. Eventually, with their unique moniker, Twins for Justice, they became the first identical-twin district court judges to sit on the same bench at the same time in the country. Focusing on restorative justice, their careers were on a meteoric rise until the unexpected and sudden death of Judge Leona Lloyd put an abrupt halt to their successful lives together.

Lost and alone, Leonia was in the storm of her life; despair had an iron-clad grip around her. She turned to God for guidance, and her prayers were answered. Your Honor, Your Honor chronicles her life experiences including her relationship with her twin, her struggles against racism, her account of the grieving process, and her stride toward justice.

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About the Author

Leonia Lloyd is a public speaker and author whose career as a judge, lawyer, and teacher has spanned decades serving the citizens of Detroit. Having sat on the 36th District Court for more than 20 years, Judge Lloyd has lived a life with many stories to tell which are captured in her new memoir Your Honor, Your Honor: A Journey Through Grief and Restorative Justice. Her award-winning justice programs for drug and prostitution offenders have been featured on the National Geographic Channel, A&E Network, and in the Detroit Free Press.

She is a product of Detroit Public Schools and received her Bachelor's and Juris Doctorate degrees from Wayne State University. Before becoming a judge, she was a partner in the law firm "Lloyd and Lloyd," which she shared with her late twin sister, Leona. They were featured in Ebony, Jet, and People magazines along with the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News. Both she and her sister would go on to be elected to serve on the 36th District Court and be the country's first twin judges to sit on the same district court bench at the same time. They were affectionately dubbed the "Twins for Justice."

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1663201846
• ISBN 13: 9781663201843
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 346