Latina justice passes the torch to daughters

At the Democratic Meet and Greet on September 11, retired Justice Linda Yanez described her experience on the 13th Court of Appeals.

“In 1993 the dynamo with white hair, Gov. Ann Richards, appointed me to the 13th Court of Appeals,” she said. “I was the first woman on the 13th Court of Appeals and the first Latina in the state of Texas on an appellate court.”

Yanez recalled taking the bar in 1976 and being eight and a half months pregnant. She said the men objected to her being in the room because they thought she would give birth anytime and disrupt the test. So, she tested separately with some other women.