Not everybody gets a letter from the president on their 90th birthday. But legendary Dallas family lawyer Louise Raggio (pictured), who enters her ninth decade today, received that very thing -- hand delivered to her by a member of Congress, to boot. Yesterday, the Raggio clan and others gathered at Louise's son Tom’s home in University Park for a 200-person party, which included U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Dallas, who gave Louise the letter from President Barack Obama. “It congratulated her on her lifetime achievement, for helping women and children, and thanking her for her many contributions to our society,’’ says Grier Raggio, another of Louise’s sons and a partner in Raggio & Raggio in Dallas. Her accomplishments are too voluminous to list here, but marriage equality in Texas begins with Louise Raggio, who wrote the Marriage Property Act of 1967. She chaired the State Bar of Texas' first Family Law Section from 1965 until 1967. And she's the author of "Texas Tornado: The Life of a Crusader for Women's Rights and Family Justice."
-- John Council
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Congratulations to her for reaching 90 years! It seems President Obama has a heart for good lawyers. She deserves all that and more.
Posted by: Mike Clark | January 11, 2012 at 01:00 PM