Charlotte Adelman

CHARLOTTE ADELMAN is a Chicago-area attorney with approximately 30 years of private practice and co-author, with Bernard Schwartz, of books on native Midwestern plants, including Midwestern Native Shrubs and Trees, The Midwestern Native Garden, and Prairie Directory of North America.

Adelman was the inaugural recipient of the Chief Justice Mary Ann McMorrow Award in 2004. She graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1962, one of only four women in her class, and served as President of the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois from 1984 to 1985.

When not writing, Adelman serves as historian and archivist for the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois, a role she held following her presidency. She is also the author of WBAI: The First 75 Years.

Charlotte lives in the Chicago area.

Charlotte Adelman’s books are published by Turner Publishing.

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