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Sarah Tilghman Hughes (
August 2,
1896–
April 23,
1985) was an
American lawyer and
federal judge who
swore-in Lyndon B. Johnson as
President on
Air Force One after the
Kennedy assassination. She is the only woman in U.S. history to swear in a U.S. President (a task usually executed by the
Chief Justice of the United States).
The photo of her administering the oath of office to Johnson remains the most famous photo ever taken aboard Air Force One, as Kenneth T. Walsh, White House correspondent for
U.S. News & World Report, said in
Air Force One: A History of the Presidents and Their Planes.
Born Sarah Tilghman in
Baltimore, Maryland, she was the daughter of James and Elizabeth Haughton Tilghman. After high school at the all-girl
Western High School in
Baltimore, she attended
Goucher College in
Baltimore. After graduation she taught science at
Salem Academy in
North Carolina for several years. She then returned to school to the study of law. In 1919 she moved to
Washington, D.C., and attended
The George Washington University Law School. She attended classes at night and during the day worked as a
police officer. At that time she lived in a tent home near the
Potomac River and commuted to the campus by canoe each evening.
She moved to
Dallas, Texas in 1922 with her husband, George Hughes, whom she'd met in law school. She practiced law for eight years in Dallas before becoming involved in
politics, first being elected in 1930 to three terms in the
Texas House of Representatives. In 1935, she accepted an appointment as a state judge from Governor
James Allred for the
Fourteenth District Court in Dallas and was the state's first woman district judge. In 1936 she was elected to the same post. She was re-elected six more times and remained at that post until 1960.
As a reward for her involvement with the
Democratic Party, in 1961, President
John F. Kennedy appointed her to the
United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. She was the first woman to serve as a
federal district judge in Texas. Two years later, on
November 22,
1963, she was called upon to administer the oath of office to Lyndon B. Johnson after the
assassination of President Kennedy.
Hughes was a member of the three-judge panel that first heard the case of
Roe v. Wade; the panel's decision was subsequently affirmed by the
Supreme Court of the United States. She retired from the active federal bench in 1975, though she continued to work as a judge with
senior status until 1982.
A close friend of LBJ and his family, Hughes participated in his
inauguration in 1965, took part in the book-signing of
Lady Bird Johnson's White House memoirs, and participated in the dedication of the
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.
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