Brighton Publishing announces featured article on Sonja White David in “The Tombstone Epitaph"

CHANDLER, Ariz. - July 17, 2013 - PRLog -- CHANDLER (AZ)—Brighton Publishing LLC proudly announces Sonja White David’s feature article in The Tombstone Epitaph National Edition. Ms. David’s latest work, “Lady Law: The Story of Arizona Supreme Court Justice Lorna Lockwood,” is a revealing biography of Arizona’s first female Supreme Court Justice, Lorna Lockwood, and the obstacles she overcame to become one of America’s finest female heroes. Lady Law: The Story of Arizona Supreme Court Justice Lorna Lockwood is currently distributed in print through Ingram, the world’s largest book distributor, and is available in both print and eBook format from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other leading book retailers worldwide.

“Ms. David’s book is an easy blend of a personal story, a bit of Arizona legal history (including some important cases, such as voting rights for Indians) and a measure of political history.”
~ Frederick Schoemehl, July 2013, The Tombstone Epitaph

In the mid-1940’s, Lorna Lockwood would face many opposing voices, “No woman is capable of being a judge,” the Governor of Arizona told a group of ladies. Rather than argue the point, Ms. Lockwood, instead, ran for office—eventually, ten years later, she would be elected to the bench of the Arizona Supreme Court.

Later, in 1965, Ms. Lockwood would make history—becoming the first woman chief justice on any state supreme court in America.

Throughout her career, Ms. Lockwood would maintain that, “Most men make no distinction between professional men and women,” but upon her retirement she would admit, “I had to work twice as hard to be considered for those posts because I was a woman.”

Since 1880, The Tombstone Epitaph newspaper, which covered Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Gunfight at the O. K. Corral, has been the voice of the Old West. Today, The Tombstone Epitaph National Edition (http://www.tombstoneepitaph.com/current.html) brings you the history of Tombstone and the Wild West every month.

Since the days of her youth, author Sonja White David has continued her lifelong pursuit toward writing excellence. From biblical plays written for her church’s youth group program to writing a weekly column for her town’s newspaper, the Chandler Arizonan, Ms. David has accomplished much during her prolific writing career. After studying the works of Alan Cheuse, author and book reviewer for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, Ms. David began writing book reviews for the Denver Post and feature articles for Bloomsbury Review and Denver Magazine. Currently, Ms. David resides in the Arizona desert with her husband, Richard, her granddaughter, Jennie Jane, and her black Bombay cat, Sheba. She is presently at work on a memoir about her five years spent on the San Carlos Apache Reservation. Lady Law: The Story of Arizona Supreme Court Justice Lorna Lockwood is her first published book.