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January/February 2008

FEATURES DEPARTMENTS

One Woman’s Fight for Freedom:
Gess v. Lubbock

By Judge Mark Davidson

Sam Houston v. Mirabeau B. Lamar
A Forgotten Frontier Furniture

By James W. Paulsen

Reconstructing Reconstruction:
Stories from the Harris County Court
Archives on How the Rule of Law Was
Restored After the Civil War

By Bill Kroger

The First Woman Juror in Texas
By Sarah Duckers

Mining Gold in Harris County’s Historical
Case Files


Bringing 21st Century Technology
to the Past

By Judge Joseph “Tad” Halbach


A New Home for The Houston Courts
of Appeals

By Justice Adele Hedges

 

President’s Message
By Tommy Proctor

From the Editor
By David V. Wilson II

A Profile in Professionalism:
Lan T. Nguyen
Shortt & Nguyen, P.C.

Committee Spotlight
History Forgotten is History Lost
By Brad A. Allen