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faculty—and also as chair of HLR’s Board of Directors, having
served the publication so long, and contributed to it so greatly,
that the excellence of one of his best-loved initiatives was by then
secure.
Gender at the Top. Decade 1 at Houston Law Review had
featured the publication’s first female Editor in Chief, Marjorie
Caldwell (Board 7). Decade 2 saw four more EICs added to the
total: Marjorie A. Wilhelm (Board 11), Nancy Taylor Reed (Board
14), Donna Sue Burnett (Board 17), and Claudia Wilson (Board
19). Thus, by 1983 when Decade 2 ended, HLR had been run by a
woman five times, or for one-quarter of its existence. Meanwhile,
some distance to the northeast, a similarly initialed review
recognized its first female President only in 1976—after a mere
90 years of existence—and would not name another woman again
until its 100th Anniversary in 1986. Thus, at the end of Decade 2
in Houston, the tally read: HLR South (lifetime) 5, HLR North
(lifetime) 1. But who was counting?
