Indomitable Sarah
Subtitle: the life of Judge Sarah T. Hughes
By: Darwin Payne ; foreword by Barefoot Sanders ; afterword by Sarah Weddington.
Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Dallas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
Subjects: Hughes, Sarah T. 1896-; Women judges -- Texas -- Biography; Women legislators -- Texas -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Judge Sarah T. Hughes is perhaps best remembered as the woman who swore in Lyndon Johnson as president aboard Air Force One on November 22, 1963, after President John F. Kenedy was assassinated in Dallas. But long before then, she had been making headlines as the foremost woman Democrat in Texas. In 1935, over the protests of a local senator who said she should be home washing dishes, Sarah T. Hughes was appointed the first woman district judge in Texas. She was nominated for vice president of the United States at the 1952 Domocratic National Convention, and in 1961 she was nominated by President John F. Kennedy as a federal district judge. A feminist who devoted her life to liberal causes, she presided over the three-judge panel and worte the opinion that overturned Texas's abortion laws in 1970 in Roe v. Wade, a decision upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, a decision that has rocked American society and politics to this day."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.