TEXAS WOMAN JUDGE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 12, 15 January 1936, Page 2

TEXAS WOMAN JUDGE

USES COMMON SENSE FASCINATED BY POLITICS SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. JO. Bobbed-haired Judge Sarah T. Hughes, Texa’s first and only woman jurist, likes the position so well that she plans to be 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 that.” 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, oi •course, that politics offer a precarious career, but the excitement of campaigning or battles in legislative chambers fascinates me. I don’t about money —that is, in any considerable amount. I know that it will sound foolish to many persons, but I am sincere. I do enjoy public honours and I have an ambition to do some thing for the State.” Her appointment to the Bench, to fill an unexpired term last February 13, brought a fight over confirmation, hor home Senator arguing that she “should be home washing dishes.” Judge Hughes said hor career had not prevented her washing dishes.