Governor’s Honorary Proclamation
About Brooke: A Governor’s Proclamation
Meet “Brooke at the Bar”: As Others Write about Brooke
Contents
List of Figures
Foreword: Brooke Wunnicke, Autobiography and Commentary on the American Legal System Thomas J. Noel
Preface: Brooke’s Welcome to the Reader, a Letter to Brooke’s Friends and Colleagues, and a Song about Brooke
Part One: Meet the Author for Your Voyage “Inside Our Legal System”
I Am a Westerner
Early Life: Growing up in the Great Depression
College and Working in the Great Depression
Law School: A Woman Law Student in the 1940s
“Fizz-Ed”: A Tragic Tale of No Athletic Ability
Part Two: The Lawyer, 1946–2011
The Wyoming Lawyer (1946–1969)
The “Old West Bar” and Some Firsts for Me: Early Career as a Woman Lawyer in Wyoming
The Trial Lawyer
Never Again! Once Was Enough!
The Appellate Lawyer
The General Practitioner
Wyoming Wind and Casper’s Jinxed Hotel?
Happy Decades as a Wyoming Lawyer (1946–1969)
The Colorado Lawyer (1969–Retired 2011)
Starting Over in Colorado
Public Service in Criminal Cases and Mentoring “Brooke’s Children” (1973–1986)
Of Counsel (1986–2011)
Give a Helping Hand
Adjunct Professor of Law (1977–1997)
Books: Invited to Write
Legal Ethics: National Lecturer
I Am Not “Goody Two Shoes”: An Attorney Confronted by Child Abuse
Ethics: Attributes of a Good Lawyer and a Good Citizen
Acquire or Renew Your Faith in the Law
What the Law Means for Us
The Magna Carta: What’s It to You?
Bedrock of Justice: The Common Law
The Judiciary: What It Means for You
Pre-Trial Process: Uses and Abuses
The Parts of a Civil Jury Trial
Voir Dire: an Insider’s Look at Jury Selection
Opening Statements: Please, Anything but a “Roadmap”!
Testimony: Direct Examination and Cross-Examination
Witnesses
Closing Argument
About Appeals
We the People—Preamble to Our Constitution
Our Bill of Rights
Epilogue: Your Inalienable Rights
Brooke Wunnicke Curriculum Vitae: 1918–2014
Denver Public Library Western History and Genealogy Archive Index of the Brooke Wunnicke Papers
Index
Timberline Books series list