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excitement and building my sense of
optimism in the world," she says.
Optimism is a word Diane
mentions frequently. When you look
at high school students now they are
doing so much more, but there is less
opportunity for spontaneity in their
lives, and their outside activities need
to be more structured," she says.
She has spread her own reserves
around to a remarkable degree. Some
of her accomplishments have included
stints at home-schooling her three
children — a daughter, 17, who has
completed her freshman year at
Princeton University; and two sons,
14 and 8. She and her husband, Jeff,
dean of U-M's Law School, have
served as foster parents when they lived
in Washington D.C. and now in Ann
Arbor.
Diane estimates they have taken in
15 children, mostly pre-adoptive
newborns, since moving to Ann Arbor
in 1987. The Lehmans met at Cornell
and graduated from the U-M Law
school in 1981. These days, she limits
her legal work to freelance editing,
some projects relating to elder law and
co-hosting the Law School's many
social and educational activities.
She also completed another course
of study in 1981. It was the year she
finished her studies in Judaism and
converted, under the tutelage of Rabbi
Kensky. She believes Judaism has
derived a special effusion of vitality
and energy from converts such as
herself.
"My paternal grandmother, a
Presbyterian, believed that we live to
serve," she says. "I was raised with the
teachings of Christian Science, but
my parents believed that religion was
something personal that you choose.
The important thing was to be on a
path, to connect with God. No
particular flavor was required."

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