Barbara J. Cohan-Saavedra:  

After college, I worked at Horizon House as a psychiatric social worker once I decided that teaching 8th grade French wasn't working out. There I acquired a 6'5" 260 pound psychotic stalker and spent so much time in court with him that I left social work and went to law school, graduating in 1978. I became a prosecutor, first in the Phila. D.A.'s office and, for 24+ years in the U.S. Attorney's Office, criminal division, where I prosecuted mostly international drug smugglers, local murdering drug lords, and a lowlife named Robert Stephan Lipka who (while we were all in high school and college) spied for the KGB during the Vietnam war. (That last case was more fun than any human should be allowed to have! Google Lipka's name for the details.) I left the U.S. Attorney's Office in 2005, and am now in-house counsel to a large commercial printing company, practicing civil law. It's a good fi...Expand for more