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Winner of the American Association for State and Local History’s Excellence in History Award Columns Leads Features Message from the President Justice James Hall Bell, Poet Grapevine Revisited: Bonnie and Clyde By Dylan O. Drummond By Diana G. Paulsen September was a very and James W. Paulsen and the Easter Sunday Murders exciting and busy The fact that Justice By Jody Edward Ginn, Ph.D., and John Fusco month for the Society, Bell, an Associate Justice Both Holloway Murphy with many causes for of the Supreme Court and Edward Wheeler celebration. of Texas from 1858 set about that Easter Read more... Dylan O. to 1864, dabbled in Drummond poetry is not particularly day thinking that their surprising. Read more... Justice Bell lives were yet in front of Executive Director’s Page them. Read more... H.D. Murphy & E. B. Wheeler By Sharon Sandle All history is a collection The Olde Dominion’s East Texas Troubles: Governor Allred of the histories of New Domain: Texas individuals and families, and His Rangers Defy Jim Crow By David A. Furlow the people whose How do the history of By Jody Edward Ginn, Ph.D. lives knit together to Virginia, Jamestown, Having built his legal form communities. and Jamestown’s church and political career Read more... Sharon Sandle tower relate to the as a prosecutor in Republic of Texas?” Wichita Falls and as Jamestown the youngest Attorney Fellows Column Read more... Church General for the State of By David J. Beck Texas, Allred took the Gov. Allred The third Taming Texas rule of law to heart. Read more... book, The Chief Justices of Texas, will be released in Spring 2020. 24th Annual John Hemphill Dinner: Read more... David J. Beck U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Executive Editor’s Page Gorsuch Was Guest Speaker By David A. Furlow By Marilyn P. Duncan Thomas Jefferson was Photos by Mark Matson capable of rhyming, Almost five hundred reasoning, and, based appellate attorneys, on his presidential judges, their spouses, election victory over and others filled the John Adams, scene- Grand Ballroom of the stealing. Read more... David A. Furlow Four Seasons Hotel in Austin on Friday, Justice Gorsuch September 6. Read more... Book Announcements News & Announcements The Journal Honored with Prestigious Award of Excellence A Republic, If You Can Keep It Final Call for Research Proposals! By the TSCHS Journal Staff by the Hon. Neil M. Gorsuch 2020 Larry McNeill Research The AASLH conferred its Fellowship in Texas Legal History Justice Gorsuch reflects Award of Excellence in Application deadline: Dec. 28, 2019 on his journey to the History on the Society For details: https://tshaonline.org/ Supreme Court, the role during its 74th Annual awards-and-fellowships/2562 of the judge under our Meeting. Read more... Constitution, and the vital responsibility of Justice Brett Busby Formally Sworn “A Natural-Born Storyteller”: Dr. Jeff each American to keep our republic strong. into Office by U.S. Supreme Court Kerr and the Fall Board Meeting Read more... Justice Neil M. Gorsuch Story and photos by David A. Furlow By Dylan O. Drummond Renowned Republic of Texas Supreme Court Justice Bob Justice Busby is the first Texas historian Dr. Kerr sitting Texas Supreme led the Society’s trustees Gammage: A Jurisprudence of Rights Court Justice to have on an odyssey of and Liberties by John C. Domino clerked on the United Austin’s origins during States Supreme Court. the Fall Board Meeting. Prof. Domino of Read more... Read more... Dr. Kerr Sam Houston State Justice Busby University examines Texas Supreme Justice Jane Bland Joins the Court Time Flew at the Tenth Annual Court Justice Bob By Dylan O. Drummond Save Texas Symposium Gammage’s progressive Prior to joining the By David A. Furlow jurisprudence during Supreme Court, Justice Topics included Texas the most tumultuous Bland served on the borderland exploration, period in Texas judicial First District Court of Indian territorial claims, history. Read more... Appeals for fifteen the influence of Stephen years. Read more... Justice Bland F. Austin on mapping Texas, and more. Judge Jeff Brown Sworn-In to Read more... the Southern District of Texas By Dylan O. Drummond Four Chief Justices Memorialized in Judge Brown was Texas Appellate Hall of Fame invested by Chief Justice Four chief justices were honored at a Nathan Hecht to his new ceremony held in Austin on September bench in Galveston on 5, 2019, for their trailblazing marks on the Southern District of Texas legal history. Read more... Texas. Read more... Judge Brown Texas Courts News Notes Court Clerk Blake Hawthorne to be By Dylan O. Drummond Honored with Appellate Justice Award: Judges and justices make news around Hawthorne Follows Justice Anthony the state. Read more... Kennedy as Latest Recipient Membership & More By Osler McCarthy Blake Hawthorne, the Calendar of Events Texas Supreme Court’s Clerk of the Court, will Officers, Trustees & Court Liaison receive the Kathleen McCree Lewis Award for 2019-20 Membership Upgrades Appellate Justice in April Blake Hawthorne 2020. Read more... 2019-20 New Member List Join the Society Visit the Society on Twitter and Facebook! @SCOTXHistSocy FB: Texas Supreme Court Historical Society © 2019 Texas Supreme Court Historical Society Message from the President Dylan O. Drummond eptember was a very exciting and busy month for the Society. S First, the Texas Appellate Hall of Fame welcomed its ninth class of posthumous inductees on September 5th. Descendants of the honorees were in attendance, including the great-great granddaughter of one of Texas’s first jurists. Among the 2019 class’s ranks include the first Chief Justice to preside over a session of the Supreme Court, the first Justice to author a Supreme Court opinion, and the first Chief Justice to preside over an all-woman state supreme court in U.S. history. The Society owes a debt of thanks to both Jackie Stroh, who annually oversees the Hall of Fame ceremonies and selection process, as well as Society Trustee Justice Brett Busby, who partnered with the Society as the former chair of the Texas Bar Appellate Section. The enshrinees include Texas Supreme Court Chief Justices Thomas J. Rusk, Hortense Sparks Ward, and John L. Hill, as well as Eastland Court of Appeals Chief Justice Austin McCloud. See the story on page 121 of this issue for more about the ceremony and honorees. Second, the Society was honored to welcome on September 6th the first sitting United States Supreme Court Justice to keynote its annual John Hemphill Dinner—Associate Justice Neil M. Gorsuch. He and Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Nathan Hecht had a lively and fascinating conversation, discussing the current state of civics education in the United States, as well as the Justice’s personal journey through confirmation and transition to the Court. Special thanks are owed to the Dinner co-chairs, Trustee Evan Young (as well as his wife, Tobi Young) and Trustee and Fellow Jennifer Hogan. It was my great honor to be sworn-in at the dinner by Justice Paul Green as the Society’s eighteenth president. Third, the Society also helped organize and host the Court’s annual BA Breakfast on September 7th. For the better part of a half-century, the BA Breakfast has served as annual reunion of former Court Justices, clerks, attorneys, and staff. This year’s breakfast was the best- attended in several years. Special thanks to Sarah Churchin, Heather Holmes, Lisa Hobbs, and Mary Sue Miller for making it a success. Finally, the Society was excited to welcome to the Court its two newest members, Justices Brett Busby and Jane Bland, each of whom was sworn-in to the bench during the month of September. 1 And just before September began, the Society’s Journal was honored on August 30th by the American Association for State and Local History with its 2019 Excellence in History Award for the Journal’s Summer 2018 issue focusing on the remarkable contributions of African-American judges and justices in Texas. Former Court Justice and Society President Dale Wainwright originally conceived of the focus of the issue, and attended the award ceremony alongside Executive Editor David Furlow, Managing Editor Marilyn Duncan, and Society Executive Director Sharon Sandle. As always thank you to each of our members, Trustees, Fellows, and staff who every day make the Society such an incredible organization to serve. DYLAN DRUMMOND is an appellate litigator resident in the Dallas office of Gray Reed & McGraw LLP. Return to Journal Index 2 Executive Director’s Page Some Thoughts on Our Individual and Collective Histories Sharon Sandle very family has a history. In fact, all history is a collection of the histories Eof individuals and families, the people whose lives knit together to form communities. The story of every movement, every war, every migration, every conquest, and every revolution is the collective story of the individuals who acted or didn’t act, who agreed or disagreed, who survived or died, and the families who weathered the storm. In my own community, I know people who can trace their families back to the original settlers of Texas, and I know people who can trace their families back to the Native Americans who lived and worked alongside the missions in San Antonio. I know people who can trace their families back to arrivals on Ellis Island or to passengers on the Mayflower. In my own family, some of us arrived pretty recently. My husband Mike arrived in Houston on a plane from England in 1970, the same time my parents and I arrived in Texas by car. Others of us came much earlier. My grandmother’s family arrived in Boston in 1904 from Sweden.