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By Brooks Igo – (July 7) – The State Bar of Texas’ Women and the Law Section honored Andrews Kurth partner Robin Russell with its Louise B. Raggion Award at its Annual Meeting in Austin, the firm recently announced.
Russell, the co-chair of the firm’s bankruptcy practice and managing partner of the Houston office, is a founding member of the firm’s Women’s Initiative team – which promotes the recruitment, advancement and retention of women at the firm – and the firm-wide Policy Committee. The Baylor School of Law graduate is also a founder of the Center for Women in the Law.
“I am beyond honored and humbled to receive an award named after Louise Raggio,” Russell said in a statement. “Because of her courage, her tenacity and her refusal to even acknowledge the conventional wisdom of her time that women couldn’t be extraordinary lawyers, she was an inspiration to me and every woman I know who entered the legal profession. I hope to uphold her legacy with honor.”
Raggio, nicknamed “The Texas Tornado,” was the first woman assistant district attorney in Dallas County. She was instrumental in lobbying for and writing the Marital Property Act of 1967, which gave married women in Texas property rights independent of their husbands, and spearheaded the creation of the Texas Family Code. She died in 2011 at the age of 91.
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