With a new vacancy on the Texas Supreme Court, attention turns to diversity concernsGov. Greg Abbott has his third opportunity to appoint a judge to the state's highest civil court. His first two picks were white men.by Emma Platoff Aug. 5, 2019 The first and only all-woman Texas Supreme Court came about by accident.
The legal question was about as interesting as any — the El Paso-area land rights of a fraternal organization called Woodmen of the World — but all three male justices on the court in 1925 were members of that club, as were the prominent male attorneys then-Gov. Pat M. Neff considered as potential replacements. Ultimately, Neff settled on a novel path forward: For a single sitting, he appointed three women to the court.
The court is three times larger now, but it hasn’t had such a high proportion of women — or even a higher number of women — since. It wasn’t for six more decades that a woman was appointed to serve full-time on the court, and fewer than 10 women have served as full-time justices at all.
Currently, there are just two women on the state’s highest civil court, the same as the number of justices named Jeffrey B.
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