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.

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.

Growing up she often heard her mother say a woman who tells her age will tell you anything.  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, fiction, and screenplays, 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.