- In 1968 she was elected to the Texas House of Representatives, defeating the Republican incumbent. She was the lone woman in the House, with 149 men. She supported farm workers' rights, abortion rights, criminal justice reform, and stronger environmental protection.
- She graduated from Vassar College at age19, and attended law school at the University of Texas at Austin, where she was among a handful of women in a student body of 800. She returned to Corpus Christi to practice law at her father's firm until her marriage.
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