About Your Honor, Your Honor by Judge Leonia J. Lloyd
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. The twins achieving against the odds, triumphing over racism and sexism .With their unique moniker, “Twins For Justice”, they became the first set of identical twin district court judges to sit on the same bench at the same time in the country. Focusing on restorative justice, they pioneered a career path to a pinnacle of high profile achievement that helped society’s most vulnerable people triumph over addiction, prostitution and the deadly perils of crime and street life. Their lives were on a meteoric rise until the unexpected and sudden tragic 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 and her prayers were answered.
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Author Bio:
Judge Leonia J. Lloyd earned a bachelor’s degree in education and a law degree from Wayne State University. She taught at Cass Technical High School and was a partner in the Lloyd & Lloyd law firm. She was elected to the 36th District Court and served twenty fours years on the bench. The last fourteen years on the bench she was the presiding Drug and Veteran’s Treatment Court Judge. She had over 1000 graduates from her Treatment court programs. In compliance with her commitment to the community, in 2001, in memory of her sister, Judge Lloyd endowed a scholarship foundation at Wayne Law to assist law students pursuing a law degree. Many of the past recipients of the scholarships came to her courtroom after they graduated and passed the bar to thank her for the monetary assistance they were given through her scholarship fund.
In 2021, Judge Lloyd was selected as a winner and was awarded the Book Excellence Award for “Your Honor, Your Honor”.