On the first page of the opening chapter in my book Contempt of Court: A Turn of the Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism, there is this single sentence: “Ed Johnson was not a significant man, except in the sense that all people have significance.”

Johnson was a Black man who couldn’t read or write, worked two jobs to survive in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1906 who was falsely arrested for a rape he did not commit, railroaded through the criminal justice system and sentence to death – all in three weeks.

The Texas Lawbook this year created a full-time writer position to do nothing but cover pro bono and public service by lawyers in Texas. Natalie Posgate writes about corporate lawyers tackling big issues for military veterans, the homeless and those trapped in sex trafficking. She also writes about how a Texas lawyer can in just four hours dramatically change a single mom’s life for the better.

Natalie Posgate’s columns show lawyers that “all people have significance.”