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Houstonâs Original Nasty Woman Hortense Sparks Ward fought for womenâs rights and permanently changed Texas law in the process. By Emma Schkloven 12/14/2020 at 6:00am Published in the December 2020 issue of Houstonia They say well-behaved women seldom make history. Such an expression couldnât be truer of Judge Hortense Sparks Ward, the 20th-century version of todayâs nasty woman, who forever changed the lives of women in Texas during her unprecedented legal career. âStarting in a society that deprived women of legal rights, she worked her way into becoming a lawyer and used her legal background to help give women equal rights to men,â says retired Harris County District Judge Mark Davidson. âBy itself that is a major accomplishment. Doing it in the context of the decade in which she lived, that is a monumental task.â ....
Five legendary litigators who helped shape the Bayou City. It’s hard to really explain why Houston has been the birthplace at least in the lawyerly sense of so many colorful, key, flamboyant, and crucial lawyers, but perhaps the Allen brothers are really to blame. After all, the whole town was founded based on the New York-born pair’s false advertisement that lured so many out to the Texas Gulf Coast to live in a town that was being spun as “the shining city on a hill” even though the land was flat, swampy, mosquito-ridden, and little more than a mudhole. While enough of those duped opted to make the best of things, surely some of them must have turned litigious. So maybe that’s where the legal bent crept into our city’s DNA. ....