Called to Justice: The Life of a Federal Trial Judge

Urbom?s memoir begins on a small farm in Nebraska during the dustbowl 1930s. From making it through the Great Depression and drought to serving in World War II, working summers for his father?s dirt-moving business, and going to school on the G.I. Bill, Urbom?s experiences constitute a classic American story of making the most of opportunity, inspiration, and a little luck. Urbom gives a candid account of his time as a trial lawyer and his early plans to become a minister?and of the effect both had on his judicial career. His story offers a rare inside view of what it means to be a federal judge?the nuts and bolts of conducting trials, weighing evidence, and making decisions?but also considers the questions of law and morality, all within the framework of a life well lived and richly recounted.
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