TEXAS WOMAN JUDGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 307, 28 December 1935, Page 10

TEXAS WOMAN JUDGE.

USES "COMMON SENSE."

FASCINATED BY POLITICS.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

SAN FIUXCISCO, December 10.

Bobbed-haired Judge Sarah T. Hughes, Texas' first and only woman jurist, likes the position so well that she plans to he a candidate to succeed herself next year. Citing disposition of 118 jury panels and 509 non-jury cases in her first six months of the Fourteenth District Court Bench, she said a woman judge can handle litigation as efficiently as a man. "In this business of being a judge," she said in Dallas, "I use common sense. Good law is no more subtle than thai;.'*

She prefers the Bench to the practice of law, but politics is nearer her heart than either. "I love the colour, the activity and the thrust and defence of politics," she went on. "I realise, of course, that politics offer a precarious career, but the excitement of campaigning or battles in legislative chambers , fascinates mo. I don't care about money—that is, in any considerable amount. I know that it will sound foolish to many persons, but I im sincer: I do enjoy public honours and I have a.IM ambition to do something for the State Her appointment to the Bench to fill an unexpired term last February J3i brought a fight over confirmation, her home Senator arguing that she "should be home washing dishes." Judge Hughes said her career had not prevented her washing dishes!