I was three years old when my mother started law school, so I can’t say I remember the event clearly. I do remember that she treated law school like a job and worked very hard as a young associate. She would come home to fix dinner and put my younger sister, Ashley, and me to bed by 8PM. After that, she would close the dining room door and study or work for three hours. On Saturdays, our dad would take us hiking or canoeing so that she could work. When she graduated from the University of Houston Law Center in 1983, Mom let me sit on her lap at her swearing in ceremony in Austin. So I guess you could say I grew up with the lawyer life as part of my earliest childhood experiences.
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