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Women’s History Month From a Legal Perspective, March
2021
Regarding your article about female lawyer trailblazers, I would
submit the name of Burta Rhoads Raborn, who was a highly regarded and
well-known family lawyer in the Houston area for many years.
Professor J.T. Oldham
Houston
I was so excited to receive and read the March 2021 issue of the TBJ
with its focus on Women’s History Month from a Legal Perspective. I have
been a practicing attorney since 1982 and appreciate the significance of
the extraordinary accomplishments of these women—having been witness to
many of them in real time.
However, my excitement turned to dismay at the gross oversight and
travesty of not including the Honorable Rose Spector, the first woman
elected to the Texas Supreme Court in 1992. She would have been a
natural inclusion in your 1992 notation of Harriet Miers and Colleen
McHugh—surely being elected to the Texas Supreme Court is commensurate
with being elected to a State Bar position.
Your Editor’s Note, which is of marginal consolation, does not even
mention Justice Spector. Someone should not need to write in to call
Justice Spector to your attention. Completely inexplicable and
inexcusable. Justice Spector is as large a presence in the history of
Texas women legal leaders as any of the women profiled.
Clearly a major oversight. Hopefully the TBJ corrects this mistake and
makes an appropriate amends to Justice Spector.
Nancy Santana
Houston
