One Woman’s Fight for Freedom:
Gess v. Lubbock
By Judge Mark Davidson

Sam Houston v. Mirabeau B. Lamar
A Forgotten Frontier Furniture
By James W. Paulsen

Reconstructing Reconstruction:
Stories from the Harris County Court
Archives on How the Rule of Law Was
Restored After the Civil War
By Bill Kroger

The First Woman Juror in Texas
By Sarah Duckers

Mining Gold in Harris County’s Historical
Case Files

Bringing 21st Century Technology
to the Past
By Judge Joseph “Tad” Halbach

A New Home for The Houston Courts
of Appeals
By Justice Adele Hedges

President’s Message
By Tommy Proctor

From the Editor
By David V. Wilson II

A Profile in Professionalism:
Lan T. Nguyen
Shortt & Nguyen, P.C.

Committee Spotlight
History Forgotten is History Lost
By Brad A. Allen