Word: blanton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Good Ole Boy Ray Blanton swept "into the Governor's office in the 1974 election, Marie's appearance and efficiency caught the attention of Blanton's legal counsel, Eddie Sisk. She was soon appointed chairman of the Tennessee paroles and pardons board. From the beginning, writes Maas, Sisk "figured he'd swatted a lot of flies at once. Marie was a good-looking woman . . . her Vanderbilt degree was class. And she was a little naive...
...counterattack was swift and vicious. She was twice set up for drunken-driving arrests. A state van followed her car while she collected evidence of pardon fixes. Blanton's aides found a girlfriend of a convicted murderer who was willing to say that Marie had stolen credit cards for shopping sprees. Before Marie was fired in 1977, she went...
...trial, without settling first. I'd spend all weekend preparing for trial while my opponent goes to the golf course." Such guile, plus prodigious energy, has enabled Marshall to become one of two women partners (out of 112) at the giant firm of Baker & Botts. Texas Judge William Blanton remembers when Marshall and another woman lawyer were known disparagingly around the courthouse as "Laverne and Shirley." Now, he says, "I'm sure glad I'm not a young male lawyer having to contend with...