James Bauchert:  

Life Married in 1973 while overseas with USMC/State Department attached to the American Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -- still married to the same wonderful lady. I have to admit that our wedding was a true diplomatic incident. We met at a blind date at a cocktail party at the Canadian High Commissiner's residence and when we were married two years and a month later, it was in the Country's Catholic Cathedral, over 400 attended, including representatives of fourteen embassies or high commissions, AND there were two CIA agents and one KGB agent that we knew of in attendence. I have studied Music Ed. at The Ohio State University, then Theology at a small school in Tennessee. I taught music at the junior high level for one year ("Mr. Holland" is a trap!) After that I decided to give up honest work and went to law school. I have had a Family Law practice in Southern California for 12 years now. I have studied and become a certified mediator preparing to open my own private mediation office while serving as a "judge pro tem" and Counsel for minor's for Riverside, San Bernardino, and Los Angeles Counties, California. I am still involved in music, though (still keeps me sane - well, saner). Only bass trombone, but that is enough. Played with a professional brass band in Phoenix, AZ for a year and was declared the top band at the Western regional Brass Band competition in Las Vegas, 1999 [CD's available ;-)]. In 2000, was in a concert band in Ontario, CA that performed a salute to California's 150th birthday; show was n...Expand for more