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By Brooks Igo
(March 30) – The University of Texas at Dallas honored Deborah Hankinson, former Texas Supreme Court justice, with the Distinguished Alumni Award at its Awards Gala on Thursday.
Hankinson earned her master’s degree in special education in 1977 from UT Dallas. She later became the lead teacher of a groundbreaking Plano ISD program for elementary students with developmental disabilities.
“I have been blessed with a very fulfilling legal career, but my work as a teacher was rewarding in a way that is difficult to express, and it was made possible by the education I received at UT Dallas. Not only did my education help make me a better teacher, it helped lay the foundation for my decision to attend law school,” Hankinson, founder of the appellate law firm Hankinson LLP, said in a statement.
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