About Janie
Janie Hickok Siess jokes that she hasn’t gotten very far in life. That’s because she, along with her husband, two sons, and two dogs, lives in her childhood home in “Livable, Loveable Lodi,” California, the “Zinfandel Capital of the World”. (Yes, those are really the city’s mottos.)
Janie earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting, but came to the realization that she just couldn’t make herself care about financial statements, taxes, and all that, so she went to law school, graduating from McGeorge School of Law in 1993. She is proud to be a civil rights attorney doing, in the words of one of her law professors, “God’s work.” She has litigated all the way to the California Supreme Court where she successfully argued Conservatorship of Wendland in 2001, setting a precedent on end-of-life decision-making that is still being debated around the world.
When not involved in the good fights for equality and life, Janie can be found playing keyboards, flute, acoustic guitar and singing in several different bands, building websites for charitable organizations, and blogging in Colloquium.
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