My senior high school annual read: “Joe Otto, a US Senator, made out great – he is a presidential candidate!” However, fate had very different plans. I soon met God’s chosen and ideal mate at Dicki...view moreMy senior high school annual read: “Joe Otto, a US Senator, made out great – he is a presidential candidate!” However, fate had very different plans. I soon met God’s chosen and ideal mate at Dickinson College, graduated from Michigan Law School, served in the JAGC, U.S. Army, assigned to the faculty of the U.S. Military Academy teaching law, and after having had two daughters born at West Point, revised the Academy’s entrance criteria to allow women candidates.
Thereafter, I served on the faculties of Point Park University, the University of Pittsburgh, and numerous Trial Advocacy Institutes at the Universities of Michigan, Pittsburgh and Duquesne Law Schools and as a trial lawyer tried over 200 cases to jury verdict while supervising thousands of other cases. At the same time, we also helped build one of Pittsburgh’s largest law firms, medical systems and the captive insurance industry.
In the process we have raised 4 children – all lawyers, one a judge - and currently are praying hard for our 9 grandchildren - including graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy, Michigan, Olivet-Nazarene, and Penn State, with Dickinson College, Ohio University and West Point currently pending.
I have also taught numerous Adult Sunday School classes, and in the process realized that while thorough study of the Bible and God’s Word will lead any open-minded person to God and all fundamental truths – the average person will never take time to do so. However, in all of God’s Truth one single fact stands out that if proven, will confirm to all God and His plan for salvation and eternity. This fact is of the bodily Resurrection of Jesus following His crucifixion and death. Finally, to present the evidentiary proof of this fact, not as a theologian, but rather as a layman, and Trial Lawyer experienced in the presentation of evidentiary facts to a lay jury - and now to You!
Currently, with His leading we are working on two other books: “The Christian Walk and World View,” and “Life is a 2 Act Play: Act I is Required, Act II is an Elective.”view less