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most particularly at the University of Houston, see generally Joyce & Hoffman, Centered,
supra. With respect to the Health Law & Policy Institute specifically, see id. at 82–84, 91–
93.
71.
Advisor Tenure Contributions
A.A. White 1963–1966 4
Alan D. Cullison 1965–1970 2
Sidney Buchanan 1970–1985, 1987–2006 31
Irene Rosenberg 1985–1993 7
Laura Oren 1986–1993 5
Mark Rothstein 1987–1990 3
Seth J. Chandler 1993–1997 0
David R. Dow 1993–2004 8
Robert A. Ragazzo 1993–2013 1
Craig Joyce 1997–2002 28
Douglas Moll 2002–2013 0
Meredith J. Duncan 2004–2006 1
Joseph Sanders 2006–2013 1
Ronald Turner 2006–2013 1
For the counting principles involved in this tabulation, see Methodological Note in Craig
Joyce, Driven: The First Decade of Houston Law Review, supra, at 32 n.3.
72. See Joyce & Hoffman, Centered, supra, at 86–87, 97 n.29.
73. See Faculty Advisors Oral History, supra note 64, at 2.
74. Id. at 2. Ragazzo gives full credit to Board 32 Editor in Chief Robert J.
Sergesketter and his fellow editors, adding: “Unlike 1993, today we are one of the most
timely law reviews in the United States.” Id. at 4.
75. See Joyce & Hoffman, Leap, supra, at 123–25.
76. For detailed information concerning Tropical Storm Allison and its impact on
Houston Law Review, see id. at 126–28, 133–37.
77. Faculty Advisors Oral History, supra note 64, at 10–11.
78. Id. at 5, 7.
79. Id. at 7.
80. Id. at 19.
81. The judiciary of Texas is popularly elected, but as in Sondock’s instance many
judges come to the bench initially by appointment upon the resignation or death of their
predecessors. The text above refers to Justice Sondock as having been “regularly
appointed” to the Supreme Court. Three women had preceded her, but to hear only one
case. In 1925, an all-female Court was seated for the sole purpose of deciding a
controversy involving the Woodmen of the World, a fraternal organization whose
membership included nearly all male members of the Texas bar. When sitting justices, all
men, recused themselves, the governor selected three women lawyers to constitute a
special tribunal to decide the case. They did, ruling in favor of the Woodmen, and then
promptly disbanded. Mary G. Ramos, Texas’ All-Woman Supreme Court, TEX. ST. HIST.
ASS’N, TEX. ALMANAC, http://www.texasalmanac.com/topics/history/texas-all-woman-
supreme-court (last visited Apr. 25, 2013). Justice Sondock was followed in appointment
by Eugene A. Cook III, UHLC 1966, in 1988.
82. Decade 3 Oral History, supra note 64, at 3.
83. Id. at 8–12.
84. A similar story involves Raul A. Gonzalez, Jr., of the Law Center Class of 1966.
Gonzalez would become the first Hispanic Justice of the Supreme Court. But like
Sondock, his resume contained no HLR gold star. The son of migrant farm workers from
the Rio Grande Valley and a first-generation college graduate, Gonzalez was simply too
busy, having already started a family, shelving books in the law library, waiting tables,
and delivering phone books door-to-door. His take? “No job is too demeaning when you
need the money.” Interview by Harper Estes with Justice Gonzalez for Texas Legal