Ward, Hortense Sparks Malsch
1872 - 1944

Details
AliasES: Hortense Sparks, Hortense Malsch
Born: 7/20/1872 in Matagorda, Texas
Died: 12/5/1944
Ethnicity: White/Caucasian
Professional Facts
Regions and States of Practice:
TX, South
Positions During Her Career:
Private practitioner with her husband at Ward & Ward (1910-) County stenographer
Interim Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court (1925)
Firsts:
Woman attorney in Texas (1910)
Woman admitted to the Texas bar (1910)
Woman from Texas and below the Mason-Dixon line admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court (1925)
Woman to vote in Harris County, Texas
Accomplishments:
Championed the Married Women's Property Law (1913)
Served as an interim Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court
Further Research Materials

References:
Hortense Sparks Ward
Janelle D. Scott, "WARD, HORTENSE SPARKS," Handbook of Texas Online
(http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fwa83), accessed February 11, 2011.

Student Papers:
Hortense Sparks Ward
Skinner, Michelle, 2005