While in university, she also served as president of the Austin League of Women Voters and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa as well as a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship winner.
[3] During her years of raising three sons she attended Southern Methodist University at night earning her law degree by 1952 where she was the only woman in her graduating class.
[1] Louise Raggio found a job working as an assistant district attorney in Dallas County in 1954 and was put in charge of child support, delinquent fathers, juvenile court and family law.
Then, in 2011, the Louise B. Raggio ABA Legacy Award was created in her name to honor individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of family law.
Past lecturers have included Gloria Steinem, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Governor Ann Richards, Valerie Plame, Herb Kelleher, Senators Claire McCaskill and Kelly Ayotte, Barbara Bush (younger), and Amal Clooney.