1986

It’s 1986. Hugh Stedman is a practicing attorney and insurance in-house counsel. Juanita Stedman is a teacher by day and a first year law student at night. She’s pregnant with their first child. Me. I’m learning civil procedure in the womb. I arrive 6.5 weeks early, interrupting Juanita’s finals. The new parents craft and mail out my birth certificate: “Stedman & Stedman Is Pleased to Announce That Emily Logan Stedman Has Joined the Firm as an Associate” From birth, my path seemingly set. I would be an attorney.