Mission Statement

The Texas Supreme Court Historical Society

is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to

the collection and preservation of papers, photographs, and significant artifacts relating to the Supreme Court of Texas,

the appellate courts, and Texas judicial history.
WELCOME to our website! We hope you will find information of both historical and current interest in our pages. Please return often—and consider becoming a member of our organization.

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

The Texas Supreme Court:

A Narrative History, 1836-1986

The Texas Supreme Court Historical Society is pleased to announce the

publication of the first book-length history of the Texas Supreme Court

in almost 100 years. Written by

award-winning author/historian James L. Haley, the book is part of the Society-sponored Texas Legal Studies Series published by the University of Texas Press.

The Society presented a ceremonial

first copy of the book to the Texas

Supreme Court during a special

session of the Court held in the

historic Supreme Court Courtroom in the State Capitol.

See story inside.

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Hon. Sandra Day O’Connor is

2013 Hemphill Dinner Speaker

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has accepted

the Society’s invitation to be the

keynote speaker at the 18th Annual

John Hemphill Dinner. The event is scheduled for Friday, June 14, 2013,

at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin.

Justice O’Connor was nominated to

the U.S. Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1981 and served as Associate Justice until her retirement

in 2006. She was the first woman in history to serve on the Court.

 

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Winter 2012 Issue of the TSCHS Journal  Now Available

Volume 2, no. 2 of the Society’s e-journal

was distributed to members in December

and is now available for download in pdf format.

Features include an article on .judicial reform under Gov. Dan Moody in the late 1920s, by Josiah Daniel III; part two of a story about the struggle for ownership of Padre Island, by Judge Mark Davidson; and an interview with Joe Greenhill V, grandson of the late Chief Justice Joe R. Greenhill, by Bill Pugsley.

The Spring 2013 issue (vol. 2, no. 3) of

the journal was distributed to Society members in mid-March and will be available online in mid-May.

Download the Winter 2012 issue now:

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Summer 2012 Issue:

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Spring 2012 issue:

TSCHS_Journal Spring 2012 (pdf)

Winter 2011 issue:

TSCHS_Journal Winter 2011 (pdf)

Fall 2011 issue:

TSCHS_Journal Fall 2011 (pdf)

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