Open letter to The Florida Bar.

My fellow lawyers and judges:

As an aricle in The Florida Bar News recently reported, last March I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Since the time that diagnosis became public, I have been overwhelmed by your personal expressions of concern and support. Many of you have shared personal stories of your own battle with cancer or that of a close family member, reinforcing what we all know: that cancer does not discriminate.

Anyone who is diagnosed with cancer has many, many difficult decisions to make. One of the decisions I struggled with was the decision to shed my wig and to publicly "go bald." In the end I decided that going without my wig was the best course for me--to show that I had nothing to hide and to encourage others to follow their own personal choices. I realized that none of us should feel obliged to hide...