Brabender, Daniel: - The author, Dan Brabender, is a graduate of the University of Dayton and the University of Dayton School of Law. After a general practice of law spanning over 31 years, he was elected Erie (PA) County Court of Common Pleas judge in 2009, and remains in that position to the present. Judge Brabender has written and published several local best-sellers, including RAMBLERS! The History of Cathedral Prep Football (2000); That Championship Season: The Story of the 2000 Cathedral Prep Ramblers (2001); The Cathedral Prep Basketball Chronicles (2018); and Sports Heroes of the Erie School District: 125 Profiles (2019). This is his first attempt at authoring a book outside the athletic arena.