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TSCHS Fall 2016.Pdf Columns Lead Articles Features Message from the President The Colonel Versus the Judge In Memoriam: By Macey Reasoner Stokes By Judge Mark Davidson & Kent Rutter Justice Barbara Culver Clack, 1926-2016 Your Society staff and During WWII, a lawyer By Osler McCarthy volunteers have been serving abroad in the The second woman to hard at work this fall on armed forces challenged serve full time on the a number of projects a respected incumbent Texas Supreme Court and programs which judge on the Supreme when she was appointed would not be possible Court of Texas. The race in 1988 died in Midland without your support. Macey Reasoner was unlike any the Court The challenger, on September 11, 2016. Read more... Stokes had seen. Read more... Gordon Simpson Justice Barbara Read more... Culver Clack Fellows Column Revisiting Historic Election Law in In Memoriam: By David J. Beck a Modern Constitutional Challenge: The Society’s Fellows Hans Wolfgang Baade, 1929-2016 program continues to Cotham v. Garza, 805 F. Supp. 389 (S.D. By Marilyn P. Duncan grow, recently adding Tex. 1995) The Texas legal two new Fellows for a community lost one of By W. Mark Cotham total of thirty-nine. its most distinguished Twice in my lifetime I Read more... David J. Beck scholars, teachers, have sued my beloved and colleagues on state to enforce September 14 in Austin. the United States Hans Wolfgang Read more... Baade Executive Editor’s Page Constitution. By David A. Furlow Read more... W. Mark Cotham This issue of the Journal focuses on elections, Many Thanks to Our Summer the most important of America’s five unique Ferguson v. Maddox: Impeachment, Archives Intern, Victoria Clancy! contributions to world Politics, and the Texas Supreme Court By Caitlin Bumford Thanks to Victoria civilization. Read more... David A. Furlow By Horace P. Flatt Clancy, our first summer In Texas, no grounds for appraisal intern, we now impeachment appear have a better handle on in either the state the TSCHS archives than Constitution or statutes. we’ve had in years. This absence has always Victoria Clancy Read more... been controversial. Gov. Ferguson, Read more... impeached in 1917 We’re All Coahuiltexanos Now Book Reviews News & Announcements By David A. Furlow The Society joined The Journey of the American Ulysses: 21st Annual John Hemphill Dinner: with the Texas State Library and Archives A Review of H. W. Brands’s Biography, Hon. Paul Clement Commission and the The Man Who Saved the Union: Was the Featured Speaker Center for the Study Ulysses Grant in War and Peace By Marilyn P. Duncan of the Southwest at By Marie R. Yeates Photos by Mark Matson Texas State University and John F. McInerny About 420 attendees to mark the publication Born Hiram Ulysses filled the Grand of a significant scholarly Cover of Actas Grant, he only became Ballroom of Austin’s work. Read more... Ulysses S. Grant when, Four Seasons Hotel on as a new cadet, his birth September 9 to enjoy name was accidentally dinner and the evening’s On the Road Again, altered by West Point. program. Read more... Hon. Paul Clement The new name stuck. from El Paso to Houston Read more... The book cover By David A. Furlow For a year, the Society Bill Chriss Receives the 2016 Chief worked with the El Paso Justice Pope Award for Integrity, County Bar Association William J. Boyce and John H. Torrison to present a program with John DeMers: Professionalism about the contributions By Marilyn P. Duncan Artwork at the of Castilian Spanish, Miss Fortune’s Last Mission: Uncovering The Texas Center El Paso County 1 Mexican, and Tejano law Justice Center a Story of Sacrifice and Survival for Legal Ethics has to Texas jurisprudence. named attorney and A book review TSCHS board member Read more... by David A. Furlow William J. Chriss as the The authors have recipient of the 2016 written not about Chief Justice Jack Pope Bill Chriss courthouse trials but Thank You, Mary Sue Miller Professionalism Award. Read more... By David A. Furlow about the trials that The Society’s display afflict men’s souls during case at the Texas war and that haunt their Supreme Court was families long afterwards. BA Breakfast Brings Court Colleagues suffering from neglect. Read more... The book cover Together for Annual Reunion Our Mary Sue came to By Amy Warr its rescue! Read more... Mary Sue Miller On September 10, about 100 justices, briefing attorneys, staff attorneys, staff, and guests gathered for the Briefing Attorney Breakfast at the Law Amy Warr addresses the Center. Read more... audience 2016 Inductees to Texas Appellate Harris County Law Library Awarded Membership & More Hall of Fame Announced for Centennial Historical Program By Jackie Stroh By David A. Furlow Calendar of Events Three new honorees were inducted The Harris County Law Library was Officers, Trustees & Court Liaison posthumously into the Texas Appellate honored to receive the 2016 Excellence Hall of Fame in September: Chief Justice in Marketing Award—Best Campaign 2016-17 New Member List James Patterson Alexander, appellate from the American Association of Law practitioner Marvin S. Sloman, and Libraries (AALL). Read more... 2016-17 Membership Upgrades appellate practitioner David W. Holman. Read more... Join the Society Haley Shares History of Texas Law and GLO’s Save Texas Symposium Courts at AAAL Annual Meeting Visit the Society on Twitter and Facebook! Noted author-historian Remembers the Alamo in a New Light James L. Haley was the @SCOTXHistSocy By Pat Nester luncheon speaker at the FB: Texas Supreme Court Historical Society How are the Alamo and American Academy of the new 9/11 Memorial Appellate Lawyers’ fall © 2016 Texas Supreme Court Historical Society in New York City alike? meeting in San Antonio This and many other on September 30. James Haley bedeviling questions Read more... about historical phenomena were the focus of the Save Texas History Symposium. Read more... Message from the Macey Reasoner President Stokes our Society staff and volunteer members have been hard at work this fall. On YSeptember 9th, we held the 21st Annual John Hemphill Dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin. Our keynote speaker, Paul D. Clement, former Solicitor General of the United States, gave an insightful and entertaining speech on the life and legacy of former Justice Antonin Scalia to a sold-out crowd. Jonathan Smaby, Executive Director of the Texas Center for Legal Ethics, presented the Chief Justice Jack Pope Professionalism Award to a well-deserving Bill Chriss, and outgoing President Ben Mesches presented the President’s Award to Warren Harris for all his work on the Taming Texas series and chairing the strategic planning committee. The annual Briefing Attorneys’ Breakfast followed the next morning at the Texas Law Center. The Justices and staff of the Texas Supreme Court and former BAs from around the state attended the breakfast. On September 22nd, we cohosted a reception with the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and the Center for the Study of the Southwest at Texas State University to mark the publication of Proceedings of the Constituent Congress of Coahuila and Texas, 1824–1827. This fascinating book on the first constitution in Texas, back when it was a part of Mexico, was authored by Professor Jesús F. (Frank) de la Teja of Texas State University and the Honorable Manuel González Oropeza, Chief Magistrate of the Superior Electoral Court of Mexico. The reception at the Lorenzo de Zavala State Library and Archives Building in Austin was a packed house and included such dignitaries as Consul General of Mexico for Austin Carlos González Gutiérrez, Texas State Librarian Mark Smith, and Texas General Land Office Deputy Director for Archives and Records Mark Lambert, as well as Journal Executive Editor David Furlow and Managing Editor Marilyn Duncan. Looking ahead, during the lunch hour of our Fall Board Meeting on Thursday, October 20th, we will hear a presentation by Ali James, Curator of the Capitol and Director of Visitor Services at the State Preservation Board. Please join us at the Texas Law Center in Austin to hear Ms. James’s speech if you are able. On March 2, 2017 (Texas Independence Day!), the Society will present a program at the Texas State Historical Association’s 2017 Annual Meeting. The program, to be held from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Downtown Houston, is entitled “Semicolons, Murder and Counterfeit Wills: Texas History through the Law’s Lens.” We greatly appreciate our panel presenters, Judge (Ret.) Mark Davidson, Bill Kroger of Baker Botts LLP, and Chief Justice (Ret.) Wallace Jefferson of 1 Alexander Dubose Jefferson Townsend, for volunteering their time for this program. Finally, our staff is currently finalizing the next volume in our popular Taming Texas educational series, which member volunteers will use to continue teaching Texas judicial history classes to middle school students around the state. The second Taming Texas book is entitled Law and the Texas Frontier and is slated for publication in 2017. Thank you for your continued support of the Society. I hope to see you at one of these events! MACEY REASONER STOKES is a partner with Baker Botts LLP in Houston and heads the firm’s appellate section. Return to Journal Index 2 Fellows Column By David J. Beck, Chair of the Fellows e had an excellent turnout of Fellows for the Society’s Wrecent 21st Annual John Hemphill Dinner on September 9, 2016. At the dinner, I presented a recap of the Fellows’ activities and wanted to report that same information here. The Society’s Fellows program continues to grow. We have recently added two new Fellows, bringing the total number of Fellows to thirty-nine.
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