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John Paul Barnich (1980): [16] First openly LGBT male to become a city judge in Houston, Texas (1999) [Harris, Fort Bend, and Montgomery Counties, Texas] John N. Johnson (1883): [ 8 ] First African American male lawyer in Austin, Texas [ Hays , Travis , and Williamson Counties, Texas ]
Florence Bates (1914): [8] One of the first female lawyers in Texas. She would leave the profession and become a Hollywood actress later in life. Beverly Tarpley (1952): [9] [10] [11] First female lawyer in Texas to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court; Charlye O. Farris (1953): [12] First African American female lawyer in Texas
The Port of Texas City, operated by the Port of Texas City / Texas City Terminal Railway, is the eighth-largest port in the United States and the third-largest in Texas, with waterborne tonnage exceeding 78 million net tons. The Texas City Terminal Railway Company provides an important land link to the port, handling over 25,000 carloads per year.
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 ...
Denis Leary knows his strengths.. The actor, 67, who has been married to his wife Ann since 1989, admits he has a go-to when it comes to honey-do chores."Listen, here's my thing. I'm a guy who can ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics ' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 2,795 law enforcement agencies, the most of any state.
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 ...
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 ...