Laura Akers:  

Hi, Everyone: I started a Facebook page-- finally! Stop by and be my friend there as well! I only sporadically check in at Classmates, so if you want to be bored by more frequent postings of my daily activities, check out Facebook. Have loved hearing from terrific people from the past! Hi, BUHS friends: Was thinking of the high school me. The shy, glasses/braces overachieving cyborg who freaked if she got a B. Loved band, hated PE, stayed in Girl Scouts but would rather have been riding my horses, played piano for lots of singers/churches, liked wearing the FFA jacket and editing the HS paper. Traveled to Europe and the East Coast with the Santa Ana Winds Youth band. Got an Associate Science degree from Imperial Valley Colege and was Woman of the Year. What else did I expect then? Still in overachievement mode. Went to UC Davis, but won Miss Rodeo USA and left school for a year to travel and model. After my year as Miss Rodeo USA, I went to law school and became a prosecutor at age 24. Was the first woman in the juvenile gang prosecution unit and scared my parents because we were required to go into the field and carry guns. Did lots of felony rape, homicide, domestic violence and gang cases. One of my rape cases made law for women on the issue of "frozen fear", a California Supreme Court opinion. Left the DA's office in 1997. Won a case against DA Paul Pfingst for retaliation against my career after I won a series of high-profile attempted murder and murder cases at 7-9 mos. pregnant. Was demoted & written below standard performance for my effors. The published opinion has made me "famous" in employment law circles an...Expand for more