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Columns Executive Director’s Page Executive Editor’s Page By Sharon Sandle By David A. Furlow Immediate Past President’s Message It has been sixty- Soon after becoming By Dale Wainwright eight years since the the Society’s President, Before I look back at landmark case Sweatt v. Texas Supreme Court some of the highlights Painter challenged the Justice Dale Wainwright of the past year, I want “separate but equal” (ret.) suggested that the to feature two upcoming doctrine of segregation Sharon Sandle Journal dedicate an issue events on the Society’s in education. Read more... to the contributions of David A. Furlow Hon. Dale calendar. Read more... Wainwright African-American judges. This special issue is the culmination of Fellows Column that project. Read more... Message from the 2018-19 President By David J. Beck By Marcy Hogan Greer Thanks to coauthors Our outgoing President Jim Haley and Marilyn has done so much to Duncan, we are pleased advance the Society, to report that the third and I have big shoes book in our judicial to fill. I want to thank civics and court history him for his many project, Taming Texas, David J. Beck contributions to and Marcy Hogan is nearing completion. Greer support for the Society. Read more... Read more... Leads The Constitution Imparts Chief Justice Carolyn Wright: THE FIRST, THE LAST, THE ONLY: Responsibilities as Well as Rights A Profile in Excellence The Legend of Justice Henry Eman Doyle, By Chief Justice Wallace B. Jefferson (ret.) By John G. Browning the First African-American Associate Justice Whatever was Chief Justice Wright accomplished during my is the first African- of a Texas Court of Appeals tenure on the Court, my American woman By Virgie Lemond Mouton contributions derived in Dallas to win a I met Henry Doyle in from the basic humanity, countywide election, 1982 while interviewing translated into a judicial the first in Texas to win for a position as Briefing The author’s Chief Justice Attorney at the First setting, that my father father, William a multi-county election, Carolyn Wright epitomized. Read more... Douglas Jefferson and the first African- Court of Appeals in American to lead a Texas intermediate Houston. I realized I was in the presence of my Justice Doyle and appellate court. Read more... Virgie Mouton in hero, the first graduate 1983 Texas Court of Criminal Appeals of my law school at Judge Morris Overstreet A Personal Remembrance of the Texas Southern University. Read more... By Michael Hurd The tall, dapper, bow- Unforgettable Justice Henry Doyle tie-adorned county By Hon. Murry B. Cohen An Interview with Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt In 1978 Henry Doyle court judge from By Hon. Andrew M. Edison became the first African- Amarillo became the Senior U.S. District Court American appellate first black Texan to win Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt court justice in Texas a statewide election. Judge Morris reflects on his journey when appointed by Read more... Overstreet to becoming the first Governor Dolph Briscoe African-American man to Houston’s First Court Justice Henry Doyle to serve as a federal of Appeals. Read more... judge in Texas. Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt Read more... An Interview with the Honorable Hon. Harriet M. Murphy: Reconstruction Politics and the Gabrielle Kirk McDonald First Permanently Appointed African- Galveston Seven: The Struggle to By Melanie Bragg American Woman Judge in Texas Appoint a Judge in the Eastern District Retired Federal Judge At a civil rights protest Gabrielle Kirk McDonald of Texas, 1869-72, Part 3 in the late 1960s, discusses the road she By Stephen Pate Harriet Murphy, UT Law traveled to become In 1871, President School class of 1969, the third U.S. African- Grant nominated John remembered holding American federal judge. Bruce of Alabama for Judge Gabrielle a sign stating “Put the Read more... Kirk McDonald the Eastern District of Black man in the history Judge Harriet M. Murphy Texas’s judgeship. Once books.” Read more... again, Texans erupted President Ulysses The Lady on the Bus Stop with incredulity. S. Grant Read more... By Hon. Evelyn P. McKee There All the Honor Lies: A Memoir It was a hot and humid Book by Judge Harriet M. Murphy afternoon in Houston This autobiography of in the fall of 1967. I was San Jacinto Justice: The Future the first permanently seventeen years old, and appointed female one of a handful of Black Supreme Court Judges Who Won Texas African-American judge students who attended Judge Evelyn P. in Texas is the story Her Freedom at San Jacinto, Part 2 a formerly all-White McKee not only of an African- By Dylan O. Drummond college. Read more... American woman who In this second part, we grew up in a highly will meet the five San segregated society, but Jacinto veterans who of the civil rights movement in its most served simultaneously turbulent years. Read more... as District Judges and Associate Judges of Depiction of the the Republic Supreme Battle of San Court. Read more... Jacinto’s “Twin Sisters” cannons News & Events September 7 Hemphill Dinner Will Saving and Savoring Feature Address by U.S. Fifth Circuit San Antonio’s 300-Year History The Time to Preserve Texas’s Slave By David A. Furlow Chief Judge Carl E. Stewart The Society celebrates Case Records is Now By Marilyn P. Duncan the 300th birthday of By Bill Kroger The Society’s main Texas slavery records San Antonio and the fundraising event is Alamo, and the origins locked away in the scheduled for Friday, district and county of Texas’s Spanish and September 7, 2018, at Mexican law, by serving courts for Texas the Four Seasons Hotel counties, especially Chief judge Carl as one of the sponsors in Austin. Read more... E. Stewart those in East Texas, of the Texas General The Original Land Office’sth 9 Annual Save Texas History need to be preserved as Petition in the Symposium soon as possible. 1847 Emeline Save Texas History poster lawsuit for Read more... GREAT WAR COMMEMORATION Symposium. freedom Read more... ON NOVEMBER 14, 2018 Chief Justice Carolyn Wright and John The Society and Supreme Court Will Honor Judges and Governors Who Served Membership & More Browning Receive Legal History Award By David A. Furlow The J.L. Turner Legal The Texas Supreme Calendar of Events Association Foundation Court and the Society held its annual will honor the seven Officers, Trustees & Court Liaison Scholarship and Awards Supreme Court Justices, 2018-19 Member Upgrades Gala in Dallas on two Court of Criminal October 21, 2017. Appeals Judges, and 2018-19 New Member List Read more... Chief Justice Great War Carolyn Wright & three Governors who Commemorative John Browning served in the Great War. Pin Join the Society Read more... Visit the Society on Twitter and Facebook! @SCOTXHistSocy FB: Texas Supreme Court Historical Society © 2018 Texas Supreme Court Historical Society Immediate Past President’s Message Hon. Dale Wainwright efore I look back at some of the highlights of the past year, I want to feature Btwo upcoming events on the Society’s calendar. Our 23rd Annual Hemphill Dinner will be held on Friday, September 7 at 6:30 p.m. at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin. The Hon. Carl Stewart, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, will be our keynote speaker. I invite each of you to attend this special event. For ticket information, please contact Mary Sue Miller at (512) 481-1840 or tschs@ sbcglobal.net. The year 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. The Society created the Great War Commemoration Committee to plan a meaningful celebration. Led by Judge Mark Davidson, the committee is organizing an event to celebrate and memorialize the service of the twelve Texas Supreme Court Justices, Court of Criminal Appeals Judges, and Governors who served in the war. A story about the event, scheduled for November 14 in the Historic Supreme Court Courtroom in the Capitol, appears on page 110 of this issue of the Journal. Important programs from the past year include the Texas General Land Office’s Save Texas History Symposium, in which the Society sponsored a presentation by Texas State University Professor Patricia Shields on the women’s peace movement in Texas during World War 1, and a joint session at the Texas State Historical Association’s Annual Meeting, where the Society sponsored a panel discussion on the beginnings of law and the courts in Texas. The Society’s panelists were Justice Jason Boatright, Dylan Drummond, and David Furlow, moderated by Hon. Craig Enoch. David Furlow played a key role in both programs, as he does every year. The Society is pleased to continue to sponsor these important educational forums and participate with other historical organizations in finding, preserving, and sharing the history of our great state. The Society Fellows’ Taming Texas Project also flourished this past year. The second book in the Taming Texas book series, Law and the Texas Frontier by Jim Haley and Marilyn Duncan, was released in January and became part of the project’s classroom program during the spring. Special thanks to Fellows Chair David Beck and Taming Texas Project Chair Warren Harris for their support of this worthwhile program. 1 An especially meaningful event that took place during my term was the Portrait Dedication Ceremony in honor of two Supreme Court justices from the Reconstruction era—Chief Justice Wesley Ogden and Justice Colbert Coldwell. The Society joined with the Court to sponsor the program, in which Board member Bill Ogden and Society member Colbert Coldwell presented portraits of their respective ancestors to the Court.