Salyer, Jr. She pursued an undergraduate degree in Economics graduating with honors in 1960 from Wellesley College.
[1] She graduated in 1963, with honors,[4] earning the Elizabeth Maxwell Carroll Chestnut Prize[5] as a member of the Order of the Coif.
[1] After graduation, she worked in the US Attorney's Office in the Justice Department in Washington, D.C.[6] In 1971, Lambird joined Andrews, Davis, Legg, Bixler, Milsten and Price, where she later became partner in 1977.
Her practice concerned general civil, state and federal litigation with a focus on employment law disputes with administrative agencies and on behalf of management.
[12] Lambird, her husband and a daughter, Jennifer, were killed in an automobile accident while on vacation in Çankırı, Turkey.