Alicia Connolly-Lohr, is a non-practicing attorney, born and raised in the Midwest. She is a graduate of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin in Eau Claire. She served on active duty for more than six years in the Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps. Later, she worked as an Assistant Attorney General in Oklahoma and a federal government attorney in Washington, D.C. A fan of Lincoln, she encountered stories about Abraham Lincoln defending slave owners in court. Drawing upon her research and courtroom experiences, Connolly-Lohr wrote a novel to explain and dramatize these almost-unknown, yet important chapters in American history. Lawyer Lincoln In Transit To Freedom is her debut novel. Alicia Connolly-Lohr lives with her husband and two children in a suburb of Madison, Wisconsin.