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Bold Decisions: Memoirs of a Judge, Lawyer, Teacher and Working Mom
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ISBN13: 9798878573849
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 23 2023
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 23 2023
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
It's September 1991, and Sandra Chapnik is about to become a judge.
She sits on a raised platform in a courtroom built like a castle - paneled walls, soaringceilings, the British coat of arms gleaming gold behind the podium. Below her, family and
friends crowd into the gallery: her mother, her husband, her four children, waving up at her. As
she steps down to swear the Oath of Allegiance and is gowned in black silk and a red sash,
her heart pounds. This is the moment a lifetime of struggle has built toward. But Sandra wasn't always destined for the bench.. As a teenager, she was the unhappy twin - frizzy-haired, freckled, and convinced she'd never
measure up to her glamorous sister. Friends ignored her. The school choir turned her away.
Her first boyfriend ghosted her. She dreamed of a life with more understanding in it than the
one she had.Then she met Jerry. Confidence followed. A teaching career followed. By thirty, she had four
children under ten - and that's when she decided to go to law school. What came next is the story of a working mother who refused to choose between ambition and
family, who fought her way through a judicial system not built for her, and who became, along
the way, a champion for causes that mattered.
Bold Decisions is the unflinching, deeply personal memoir of a judge, lawyer, teacher, and
mother who built a life on her own terms - one bold decision at a time.
her heart pounds. This is the moment a lifetime of struggle has built toward. But Sandra wasn't always destined for the bench.. As a teenager, she was the unhappy twin - frizzy-haired, freckled, and convinced she'd never
measure up to her glamorous sister. Friends ignored her. The school choir turned her away.
Her first boyfriend ghosted her. She dreamed of a life with more understanding in it than the
one she had.Then she met Jerry. Confidence followed. A teaching career followed. By thirty, she had four
children under ten - and that's when she decided to go to law school. What came next is the story of a working mother who refused to choose between ambition and
family, who fought her way through a judicial system not built for her, and who became, along
the way, a champion for causes that mattered.
Bold Decisions is the unflinching, deeply personal memoir of a judge, lawyer, teacher, and
mother who built a life on her own terms - one bold decision at a time.
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