About Barbara Golder, Lady Doc Lawyer

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Dr. Barbara Golder is currently Editor in Chief of The Linacre Quarterly, the Journal of the Catholic Medical Association and the longest continuously published bioethics journal in the US. She received an honorable mention for her work as Editor in Chief of The Linacre Quarterly and her editorials have received both awards for excellence from the Catholic Media Association.  Under her leadership since 2018, The Linacre Quarterly has garnered in excess of thirty awards for writing excellence as well.

She has worked as a hospital pathologist, forensic pathologist and laboratory director. Her work in these fields prompted her to get a law degree, which she used as a malpractice attorney and in a boutique practice of medical law. She has used both of these degrees in the field of disability insurance, medical politics, writing and lecturing, and teaching middle school and high school science. She is also a consecrated member of the Missionary Cenacle Apostolate (MCA), the lay branch of Missionary Cenacle Family founded by Father Thomas Augustine Judge.

Her award-winning writing on law, medicine, and bioethics has been recognized for decades by a variety of audiences, including The Florida Medical Association, The Catholic Writer’s Guild, the Indie BookAwards, and the Catholic Press Association.

In addition to scholarly work in the field of bioethics, she brings together her front-line experiences with law and medicine and her Catholic faith in a unique perspective on life lived out as a Christian in an increasingly secular world and a bridge between outlooks that all too often seem incompatible. She speaks and writes on the intersection of faith, law, medicine and ethics in a way that brings together disparate viewpoints for real conversation.

In her Lady Doc Murders series, Golder uses her keen insight of the human heart and knowledge of two full careers to build the complex and likable character, Jane Wallace. Her books are mysteries but with an ulterior purpose, what she calls “stealth evangelization.” Her books portray the Catholic life lived vibrantly, if sometimes imperfectly, in a world that doesn’t always understand the life of faith.

Dr. Golder and her husband live in Tennessee with their two dogs and two cats, and spend part of their time in their vacation cabin in Telluride, CO, the town featured in her first mystery novel.