All-Woman Supreme Court: Difference between revisions

The special court handed down its unanimous decision, in favor of the Woodmen, on May 23, 1925. Ward wrote the majority opinion, in support of the decision by the El Paso Court of Appeals; concurring opinions were written by associate justices Brazzil and Henenberg.<ref>http://texasalmanac.com/topics/history/texas-all-woman-supreme-court</ref> The decision was based mainly on an upholding of the state law regarding secret trusts and deeds.<ref>https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/jpa01</ref> Thereafter the court disbanded.<ref>http://texasalmanac.com/topics/history/texas-all-woman-supreme-court</ref> Women would not serve on the state supreme court again until 1982, when on July 25 [[Ruby Kless Sondock]] became the court's first regular female justice, when she was appointed to replace the Associate Justice James G. Denton who had died of a heart attack. Sondock served the remainder of Denton's term, which ended on December 31, 1982, but did not seek election to the Supreme Court in her own right.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/justices/profile/view/102|title=Ruby Kless Sondock (born 1926)|work= Justices of Texas 1836-1986|publisher = Tarlton Law Library, [[The University of Texas at Austin]]|date=October 16, 2009|accessdate = July 16, 2013}}</ref> [[Rose Spector]] became the first woman elected to the court in 1992 and served until 1998 when she was defeated by [[Harriet O'Neill]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scotxblog.com/elections/women-on-the-texas-supreme-court/#footnote_0_62|title=An Unusual History of Women Serving on the Texas Supreme Court|date = January 8, 2008|last=Cruse|first=Don|work=The Supreme Court of Texas Blog|accessdate = July 16, 2013}}</ref>