Audrey Biloon oral history interview, May 20, 2009

Interviewed by Tanya Washington. Audrey Biloon begins the interview by discussing how she met her first husband, David Bisno. She speaks at length about their marriage, its conflicts, and their eventual divorce. Biloon and Bisno had a long and bitter custody battle over their two children, which eventually made its way to the Georgia Supreme Court. Biloon discusses how she believes one of her early lawyers worked a backroom deal in her ex-husband’s favor and that resulted in her losing custody of her children. Biloon immediately hired a new lawyer, Margie Pitts Hames, who had argued Doe v. Bolton, the companion case to Roe v. Wade. Biloon talks about how Hames was able to get her custody case overturned on appeal. The custody case had been initiated when Biloon moved with her two children from Atlanta to Macon in order to attend law school at Mercer University. She continued to work on her law degree throughout her legal battles, and eventually practiced law herself. She talks about the difficulties that sexism within the legal system creates for women. As a lawyer she continued to experience sexism and ends her interview by discussing injustice and the legal system.