Ex-Baker Botts Partner Turns to Writing Books with Christian Themes
A former partner at Baker Botts who practiced law for 25 years has given up her corporate finance practice to work full time on writing books with Christian themes.
Pamela Binnings Ewen writes on her website that she loved being a lawyer, but the Sept. 11 tragedy caused her to re-examine her career. “I realized that everything that I had accomplished as a lawyer was temporary—interest rates go up or down, business deals are modified, people change, goals change,” she says. She decided it was time to focus on bigger questions—about life’s purpose and meaning.
Ewen told the St. Tammany News that the research for her first book began long before she decided to publish her findings. Ewen was an agnostic, and she wanted to examine the evidence for the death and resurrection of Jesus. She developed so much information that she decided to present it in the book, Faith on Trial.
Since then, Ewen has turned to fiction writing. Her most recent book, The Moon in the Mango Tree, is based on diaries kept by her grandmother, an opera singer who traveled to Thailand with her missionary husband. Ewen’s website describes the book as “based upon the true story of a beautiful young woman forced to choose between her fierce desire for a musical career and a deep abiding love.”
Ewen told the St. Tammany News that the era was a “fascinating time” for women, who had earned the right to vote but could not own property or serve on juries. “It’s like there was a crack in the door, but it wasn’t really wide open,” she said.
Hat tip to Legal Blog Watch.
