CENTENNIAL Building on the Past, Looking to the Future

In 2023, South Texas College of Law Houston turns 100 years old — and provides our law school community the opportunity to honor the past, celebrate the present, and build the future

South Texas was established by influential Houstonians in 1923 to meet a pressing need for capable attorneys to serve a growing city. They could scarcely have imagined what would happen to their law school in the ensuing century!

Over succeeding generations, visionary leaders, committed faculty and staff, and dedicated students and alumni laid the foundation of our mission-driven law school — a law school uniquely dedicated to diversity, opportunity, excellence, and service.

We stand on their shoulders. And at this inflection point, we bear a great responsibility to carry their legacy into South Texas’s second century. We do so by ensuring South Texas, for the next 100 years, continues its tradition of preparing attorneys ready to meet the ever-evolving needs of the legal profession.

This issue of InRe magazine launches our anniversary year with a centennial feature about our founding. It also highlights our law school’s mission and the current and future programs that will allow South Texas students to thrive in the years ahead. And it showcases distinctive accomplishments of our students, alumni, faculty, and staff — accomplishments of which we all can be proud.

We look forward to engaging with you, our 16,000-strong alumni community, throughout this year as we celebrate 100 years of legal excellence at South Texas.

And we can only imagine what the next 100 years will bring. Here’s to South Texas College of Law Houston’s second century!

Michael F. Barry President and Dean