Sarah T. Hughes

Sarah Tilghman Hughes ( born August 2, 1896 in Baltimore, Maryland, † 23 April 1985, born as Sarah Tilghman ) was an American lawyer and politician.

Life

Hughes attended Goucher College, a girls 'school in Baltimore, and then taught for two years at the girls' boarding school Salem Academy in Winston- Salem. From 1919, she studied law at the George Washington University Law School in Washington DC With her husband George Hughes ( † 1964), whom she met during her studies, she moved to Dallas in 1922, where she worked as a lawyer.

As a member of the Democratic Party Hughes was a member of the Texas House of Representatives from the 42nd to the 44th legislature ( 1931-1935 ). Subsequently appointed governor James Allred them to the judge at the Fourteenth District Court in Dallas; she was the first female district judge in Texas. The office she held from 1935 to 1960. During this time, she applied in 1946 unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Representatives of the United States. She was also placed at the Democratic National Convention 1952 on the list of candidates for the office of vice president, but she pulled the nomination before the vote back.

President John F. Kennedy appointed her in 1961 - the first woman in Texas - the federal judge ( the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas). After Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963, she swore his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson aboard Air Force One - a task that the Chief Justice of the United States revert to traditional.

The District Court was Hughes until 1975 as an active judge on, after which it was until 1982 active as a judge with senior status. Among the best known cases in which it was involved as a federal judge, includes Roe v. Wade (1970) and Taylor v. Sterrett (1972).