ATLANTA — When it's time to pick a career, some kids want to go in the opposite direction of their parents. But for Lauren Travis, she followed her mother's footsteps right into the courtroom.
"Some of your passions, I think, are indirectly given to you by watching your parents," said Travis, who serves as a prosecutor in the Fulton County District Attorney's Office.
Travis walks side-by-side with her mother, Cheryl Sueing-Jones, a prosecutor in San Diego.
"We've always been very close and very connected. We really didn't go through the mother-daughter rebellion," said Sueing-Jones.
Both of them went to Spelman College, followed by law school. The two are in town for the National Black Prosecutors Association's annual conference Downtown.
They're likely the only mother-daughter prosecuting duo in the country.
But Travis said the similarities end when they're both in front of a jury.
"I think that we have different courtroom styles," Travis said, "I think (my mother) would say I'm more aggressive than she is."
That aggressive style has helped Travis succeed in the courtroom. Most notably, she was the lead prosecutor in the so-called Uber Eats murder trial late last year.
Her tough questioning of Robert Bivines helped convince a jury to convict the food delivery driver of murder. It was a proud moment for her mom, watching from afar.
"I haven't had the opportunity to actually see her in court. So this was my opportunity to see her in her full glory," Sueing-Jones said.
For Travis, the proud moment came when she was just 3 years old. That's when her mother started law school.
"It really kept me grounded. I remember I had classmates who were worried about every exam, every class. But I had a three-year-old to worry about," Sueing-Jones said.
When it came time for Travis to go to law school, having a mother who went through it was invaluable.
"She is a super hero," Travis said, "I don't know how she did it with me running around."
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