Barbara LeBey practiced law for several years before spending fifteen years as a Judge with the State of Georgia.  She is the author of two books Family Estrangements: How They Begin, How to Mend Them, How to Cope with Them, and Remarried with Children: Ten Secrets for Successfully Blending and Extending Your Family and several magazine articles including  “Why Families Are Growing Apart,” in USA Today Magazine and “Bury the Hatchet” in AARP magazine.

Barbara LeBey is currently working on a new book, He’s Not Too Young for You.  It’s a new trendy option for love and romance.  It’s a happening.  It’s out there in the media, in cyber space, and it’s emblazoned in the top magazines for men and women.  Once, it may have been a romance rule breaker but not anymore as we see so many celebrity couples living in these age-gap relationships.  It’s a hot new trend that makes sense.

She has appeared in many TV and Radio shows including The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Early Show, The Diane Rehm Show, and in People Magazine.  Her books have been featured in newspapers throughout the country.  She is best known for giving heartfelt advice to people who are experiencing the kind of problems most of us face just trying to live full, productive, and happy lives while we provide the same for loved ones along the way.  She has given many talks to groups of both men and women, and finds that people are in search of help with the complexities of family life and with their romantic lives.

In addition to her professional pursuits, she is an active member of International Women’s Forum, Renaissance Weekends, A Small World, the Author’s Guild, and The Atlanta Press Club.  Before becoming a lawyer, she was a high school English teacher in New Jersey where she was born.  She graduated from Montclair State College, attended Sarah Lawrence, and received her JD degree from Emory University School of Law where she was a graduate with highest honors.  She is a wife, mother, and grandmother.   Though her home is in Atlanta, Georgia, she is also a summer resident of Martha’s Vineyard.

Often among the thousand or so emails she received during her research she was described as incredibly beautiful for her age, age being the subject she refuses to talk about. “No more birthday celebrations,” she says. Growing up she often heard her mother say a woman who tells her age will tell you anything.  At the time, she found that an absurd statement, and actually still does, but laughingly, she now quotes her mother as a way of avoiding the topic. If you want to engage Barbara in conversation, just talk about politics, the stock market, the latest nonfiction and fiction, or her grandsons, those two examples of “hyperactive perfection.” She is a seductive enthusiast, a thinker, and a passionate person who says “life is a gift meant to be enjoyed.” Though she has lived in Atlanta for most of her adult life, she still refers to herself as a Jersey Girl.