The three special justices first decided to hear the Johnson v. Darr case and then listened to oral argument. On May 23, 1925, the all-woman court affirmed the decision of the El Paso Court of Civil Appeals.10 Ward wrote the opinion, while her colleagues Brazzil and Henenberg wrote concurring opinions.11 In June 1925, the court overruled a motion for rehearing. There are many resources that detail this fascinating part of Texas history.12 The Texas Supreme Court Historical Society’s e-journal, for example, has published articles about the all-woman court, including one written and illustrated by Ward’s great-granddaughter, Linda Hunsaker.13 For additional information, go to the State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting page at texasbar.com/annualmeeting or email annualmeeting@texasbar.com. TBJ 8.

See Barbara Karkabi, Judge O’Connor’s nomination reminds us: Once Texas had an all-woman Supreme Court!, HOUSTON CHRONICLE, July 13, 1981, Sec. 4, at 6. 9. Debbie Mauldin Cottrell, All-Woman Supreme Court, HANDBOOK OF TEXAS ONLINE (June 9, 2010), http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/jpa01. 10.

Johnson v. Darr, 114 Tex. at 527, 272 S.W.

at 1102 (1925); Haley, TEXAS SUPREME COURT 167-68. 11. Johnson, 114 Tex. at 527-28, 272 S.W.

at 1102-03 (Judge Brazzil’s Concurrence); 114 Tex. at 528, 272 S.W. at 1103 (Judge Henenberg’s Concurrence). 12. See, e.g., Justice Eva Guzman and Kent Rutter, Women and the Texas Supreme Court, Texas BarCLE The History of Texas Supreme Court Jurisprudence (April 11, 2013); David A. Furlow, Taking the Law into their Own Hands: Hortense Sparks Ward, Alice S.

Tiernan, and the Struggle for Women’s Rights in the 1910 Harris County Courthouse, HOUSTON BAR ASS’N APPELLATE LAWYER (Sept. 2013), http://www.hbaappellatelawyer.org/2013/09/takinglaw-into-their-own-hands.html. 13. See Linda C.

Hunsaker, Family Remembrances and the Legacy of Chief Justice Hortense Sparks Ward, 4 JOURNAL OF THE TEXAS SUPREME COURT HISTORICAL SOCIETY 51-64 (Summer 2015), http://texascourthistory.org/Content/Newsletters//TSCHS%20Journal %20Summer%202015.pdf. DAVID FURLOW NOTES 1. See James L. Haley, THE TEXAS SUPREME COURT: A NARRATIVE HISTORY, 1836-1986 168 (Univ.

of Tex. Press 2013). 2. Id. 3.

Brief for Plaintiffs in Error J.M. Darr, et al., Trustees, filed August 8, 1923, in the 8th Court of Appeals in El Paso, p. 1 (Statement of the Nature and Result of the Case). 4.

Cover, case file from the Clerk’s Office, 8th Court of Civil Appeals, El Paso, available at the Lorenzo de Zavala State Archives and Library Building in Austin. 5. See Haley, TEXAS SUPREME COURT 146; Betty T. Chapman, HOUSTON WOMEN: INVISIBLE THREADS IN THE TAPESTRY 93-94 (Donning Co.

Pubs. 2000). 6. See Texas Supreme Court Justice Jack Pope, CHIEF JUSTICE HORTENSE SPARKS WARD, Chair Presentation Ceremony at the Friends of the State Law Library 1 (Nov.

16, 2000). 7. See Michael Ariens, THE LEGAL STATUS OF WOMEN IN TEXAS, 1900-25, paper presented at Tex. St.

Hist. Ass’n Ann. Mtg.

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