In 1965, she received her Juris Doctor from Tulane University Law School and was admitted to the Louisiana Bar.
After graduating from Tulane, she began her practice working with the Chevron Corporation and a private law firm in New Orleans.
She eventually relocated to Michigan, where she taught first grade and served as the dean of girls at The Leelanau School in Glen Arbor.
They sent her a letter telling her that she was censured without apparently remembering that the Michigan Supreme Court can censure ONLY on the recommendation of the state Judicial Tenure Commission (per the State Constitution of Michigan of 1963, Article VI, Section 30), something that had not happened.
In publishing her book in 2013, Weaver noted that it was the last remaining obligation she had to the citizens of Michigan.