Bonnie Horn Bonnie Horn is in her 21st year at 1215 Elmwood, where she runs her law practice and rents out two residences above. She also has a half- interest next door at 1219 Elmwood. There are two other houses near Owens Field where she is the landlady, and her former home on Belt Line, near Bradley School, rents out with a respectable return. But all that is on the side, as she's really busy at family law.

Horn was born in New York City, in Manhattan. Her father was in the embroidery business, and her mother worked in telephone marketing. Soon after her birth, the family moved to the Bronx, where Yankee Stadium was nearby.

She has a younger brother, who still lives in NYC, and an older sister, who lives on Victoria Island, Canada.

Horn graduated from Walton, an all- girls' high school in the Bronx. She was a student journalist and treasurer for the school paper.

After a short study at Kingsborough Community College, Horn went to Queens College, where she graduated with a degree in education. She worked several places in NYC as a substitute teacher, then gained a permanent position in Long Island City.

During her era as a NYC teacher, Horn also acquired accounting skills, which she applied as a bookkeeper for small businesses and as a director of a bookkeeping program at a business school in the Ocean Hill/Brownsville area of Brooklyn.

She met her husband Alan in NYC, and they moved to Columbia for her husband to earn his PhD in psychology at USC. While working on his dissertation, he was employed by Lexington School District One as a school psychologist. Meanwhile, Horn worked at Gadsden Elementary and Burnside Elementary.

For three years, Horn was the assistant principal at Belleville Middle School in Orangeburg, where her husband also worked as a school psychologist.

She started law school at USC in the fall of 1983 and graduated in December, 1985. Her efforts in summer school considerably cut her time in law school. She was admitted to the bar in 1986.

Horn located with Columbia lawyer Tom Dale, who invited her to join him as a partner within her first year on the job. She took the offer, then took out on her own less than a year later, locating at 1401 Calhoun, near the No- name Deli.

Early on as a sole practitioner, Horn worked a lucrative case to its conclusion when the insurance company's lawyers made their final offer on the opening day of trial. Hunt and her client took the pretrial offer, and she bought her current office on Elmwood Ave.

Another interesting case early in her practice involved S. C. State Supreme Court Justice Jean Toal, but this was when Toal was a practicing attorney for the opposing team. The presiding judge was the late Judge Carol Conner in the 11th Judicial Circuit. Conner later was appointed to the S.C. State Court of Appeals.

As a specialist in family law, Horn helps families with adoptions. Also, closely connected with family law is school law. Unfair suspension is where Horn can help. In the area of special education, Horn works to help students attain the attention they need. She also helps teachers retain their salaries while their positions are in dispute.

Horn and her husband have one son, Woody, a 17- year- old about to enter his senior year at Dreher. Woody is a varsity baseball player, and he plays both first and third base. His favorite team in "The Show" is the Boston Red Sox.

Woody's parents took him to Boston's Fenway Park to see the Red Sox play last summer. While they were in the Northeast, they went to Yankee Stadium in Horn's old neighborhood and to Camden Yards in Baltimore.