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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 ...
John N. Johnson (1883): [8] First African American male lawyer in Austin, Texas [Hays, Travis, and Williamson Counties, Texas] Rogelio Fernandez Munoz (1974): [ 71 ] First Latino American male to serve as the District Attorney for the 38th Judicial District [ Medina , Real and Uvalde Counties , Texas]
The first federal judge in Texas was John C. Watrous, who was appointed on May 26, 1846, and had previously served as Attorney General of the Republic of Texas. He was assigned to hold court in Galveston, at the time, the largest city in the state. As seat of the Texas Judicial District, the Galveston court had jurisdiction over the whole state ...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and nine other Republican-controlled states sent a letter to JPMorgan, Goldman, and other big Wall Street firms asking them to respond to questions about their ...
Alicia Campbell, the director of Victim Services within the Williamson County D.A. General’s Office has entered a guilty plea by criminal information Official in Williamson County District ...
Williamson County Attorney Dee Hobbs, 49 and a Republican, is running for his fourth term as county attorney against 50-year-old Democratic challenger Amy Lyn Lefkowitz. The winner will serve a ...
David McAdams Sibley (born 1948), attorney-lobbyist, Texas state senator (1991–2002), Mayor of Waco (1987–1988) Ron Simmons (born 1960), member of Texas House of Representatives from Carrollton since 2013; Ryan Sitton (born 1975), Republican nominee for Texas Railroad Commission in 2014 general election
The Williamson County Courthouse is a courthouse in Georgetown, Texas, United States. It was designed by Charles Henry Page in 1909, and exhibits Beaux-Arts architecture. In 1923, District Attorney Dan Moody obtained an assault conviction against four members of the Ku Klux Klan at this courthouse. A Texas historical marker for the trials ...