UTD Upcoming Event in Celebration of Women!!!
UTD Upcoming Event in Celebration of Women!!!
featuring
Louise Raggio
Pioneer of Women's Legal Rights
- When : April 24, 1996, Reception at 6pm, Talk at 6:45pm
- Where : McDermott Library, 4th Floor
Pioneer of women's legal rights Louise Raggio will speak
at UTD this month on the topic of women and the
legal system. Louise Raggio
graduated from SMU Law School in 1952 in a time when
married women could not
sign their names without there husband's permission,
and could not serve on a jury in Texas.
Raggio has taken on the challenge of equal rights
for women throughout her long and distinguished
career. She has amassed an impressive list of
accomplishments culminating in her pivotal role in
the historic re-writing of the Texas
marital property rights bill
in 1967 and in the creation of the Texas Family Code.
Recently featured in the Houston Chronicle
(March 31, 1996) as a women to whom we all owe "a debt
of thanks", Louise Raggio has been a first hand witness
and participant in the changes in women's rights of
our time. At the age of 76, still actively
practicing law, she is a keen inside source on
the state of women's rights in the present, and
has a bird's eye view of the future. Join us
for this celebration of women, to learn
about our past, to understand
our present, and to plan for our future!
Sponsored by the UTD Association of Professional Women
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