She attended St. Mary's University School of Law, receiving her J.D., magna cum laude, in 1965 and was admitted to the Texas bar.
Her older sister, Marcia Nasatir, was a film producer and vice-president of United Artists.
[1] She served until 1998, when she lost her re-election during a sweep of judicial elections in Texas by Republican candidates.
Alongside Raul A. Gonzalez, whose term also expired in 1998, Spector is one of the last two Democrats to have served as a Texas Supreme Court Justice.
In that case, the majority opinion was authored by then-justice John Cornyn, adopting the Restatement of Torts standard for intentional infliction of emotional distress, but Justice Spector dissenting, arguing that in this case, award of damages to the wife for the proven abuse of the wife by her husband should be upheld under the standards for negligent infliction of emotional distress that had been thought to apply at the time of the lower court's verdict.