Fifth Circuit Nominee Irma Ramirez ‘Devoted to Following the Law’

Irma Jean Carillo was 15 and a sophomore in high school in rural West Texas when she started thinking about becoming a lawyer.

“I refused to take home economics. I took speech and debate instead,” she told the Dallas Bar Association in a video interview in 2022. “The idea of extemporaneously speaking and debating and getting to argue with the teacher was so much fun. Doing the research and making sure that we prepared the arguments. It was so much fun.”