The daughter of a Lutheran minister, Lehman was born in Oak Hill, Alabama, but moved with her family to Buffalo, New York, when she was five years old.
[1] Lehman played Lena Hart in NBC's soap opera Sunset Beach,[citation needed] nurse Carol Williams on Emergency!,[2] Letty Gilmore on Fay,[2]: 337 Ruth Tenafly on Tenafly,[2]: 1062 and Dr. Joyce Meadows on ABC's General Hospital.
Lehman is a professor emerita of theatre and graduate of California State University, Northridge, with a B.A.
TV credits include Magnum P.I., General Hospital, ER, Cold Case, Seinfeld, Married... with Children, a recurring role as Judge Mary Harcourt on L.A. Law, a recurring role as Judge Tiano on The Closer and numerous other judge roles in The Division, Sparks, JAG, The Wayans Bros., Gabriel's Fire, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and others.
[citation needed] Lehman was married briefly to actor John Amos.