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Women have been most present in the Texas executive branch as part of the State Board of Education.The first woman ever elected to statewide office in Texas was elected as Superintendent of Public Instruction (this position no longer exists; the duties of the former Superintendent of Public Instruction are now carried out by the appointed Commissioner of Education). [3]
Edith W. Locke (1902): [4] [5] First female admitted to practice law in Texas, though she did not exercise the right; Hortense Sparks Ward (1910): [6] [7] First female lawyer in Texas, as well as the first female admitted to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court (1915) Florence Bates (1914): [8] One of the first female lawyers in Texas ...
The roots of the All-Woman Supreme Court lay in a lawsuit which originated in El Paso and reached the state supreme court in 1924. [2] The case, styled Johnson v.Darr (114 Tex. 516), involved a so-called "secret trust" under which the Woodmen of the World were claiming ownership of two tracts of land in the city.
We should see more women running for office and winning. Texas women are active politically. They vote. In the 2020 presidential election, 6.3 million Texas women voted, compared with 5.6 million men.
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The Texas Supreme Court hears oral arguments for Zurawski v. State of Texas in Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. The The plaintiffs, 20 women who were denied abortions despite severe pregnancy complications ...
“It’s empowering for all of us women working to make sure we have progressive advances in this rural part of Texas.” There appears to be more excitement for this election in Lubbock, a city ...
After the Texas primary in 1918, women became more politically active and started attending party conventions. [72] In August 1918, 233 different Democratic county conventions chose to support women's suffrage in Texas. [72] Cunningham began to lobby the United States Congress on a federal suffrage amendment.