 On January the 16th of this year, after nearly 30 years, David Tatel retired as a judge on the Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. On the cover of his new memoir is a photo of Judge Tatel in his black robe with his dog Vixen standing on his left side. The book is titled Vision, a memoir of blindness and justice. He says that he wrote the book together with his wife Edie.