NEW on The Babblery podcast: Retired judge, musician, and artist LaDoris Cordell’s parents told her that when you see a door open, you need to step through it. LaDoris has done just that in her career and in her personal life.
LaDoris Hazzard Cordell may have retired from her career as a groundbreaking judge, but she hasn’t retired from engaging with her community. She’s an investigator, she’s a musician, she’s an emcee, she’s an artist—and most importantly, she’s an advocate for the liberal values that have made America strong.
LaDoris explored her life in the legal memoir she calls a “primoir”—a combination primer and memoir called Her Honor—written during the pandemic. Drawing on a box full of letters that she wrote to her parents as she moved through the local court system and onto the Superior Court of California as a rare Black female judge, LaDoris’s primoir both explores her own difficult path and also educates the reader on what the legal system is and, in her opinion, should be.
Join us in a wide-ranging conversation, from a segregated childhood, an unusual education, and an unlikely acceptance to Stanford Law School, to retired judge, community activist, musician, artist, and grandmother.
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