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Justice Evelyn Stratton Lundberg (Retired) BY HEATHER G. SOWALD
Justice Evelyn (Eve) Stratton Lundberg, retired, is always looking for the next challenge, whether it is a new project, job, life event or artistic endeavor. Of the latter, her creative outlets have spanned from piano playing to writing short stories and poetry, from hand-carving and decorating special occasion cakes to trying out different painting techniques and styles.
Jack Lundberg, a paralegal she met during her second judicial campaign. Eve was subsequently appointed in 1996 to a seat on the Ohio Supreme Court, and was reelected several times. She discovered new passions while serving on that court, advocating for stronger state and national
Eve and her siblings were raised by missionary parents in southeast Asia, attending boarding schools in Thailand and Malaysia. After a school assignment to write poetry, she continued to craft poems based on her observations of life and society. Eve also took up painting, piano and organ. She was the piano accompanist for the choir at her South Vietnam boarding school, a role she would continue later in Texas for her college choir and travelling quartet, and in Columbus for church services and its choir. Eve made her way to Texas at age 18, and then to Ohio for college and law school (J.D., O.S.U. 1979). During this time, she met and married her first husband, and they had their now adult sons, Tyler and Luke Stratton. Eve practiced law at small civil defense law firms until 1989, when she ran for and was elected the first female Franklin County Common Pleas court judge. After her first marriage ended, she later met and married
Spring Flowers in the Meadow
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