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- CS city attorney has scaled the career ladder quickly a ° According mobile
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By HUGH NATIONS Besides, Locke recalls, "It was
. Staff Writer g warm in November, and that got
Cathy Locke's life so far has my attention." So she wound up a:,
. consisted largely of . canters, chemistry major and math minor
cockpits and caveats. at the big Baptist university. • • °_ If the new College Station city . In her sophomore year, she set
4 ?ran't•nde it or fly it, she - R . <j tled on a law career: nough, Lay -A -Way
always can .argue, it into 'submis- chemistry was Coin -; puns
• t `lion. cidentally, Jim Locke also was in
Locke, 27, was tapped by the law school. Cathy may have had
t • Cit Co A 23 to replace e enough classroom chemistry, but Budget
: her former boss, Lowell Denton. 1 ° f "" •',. the chemistry between her and Jim Terms
i Denton let to take the top legal Locke was a different matter. •
• • adviser's post for the city of San " The two spent one .
P Y p quarter in
Antonio. r ; Baylor Law School together,y
: The council likes the legal stick , - before Jim moved to College Sta -1
• • Locke wields, but it did make one tion to take a job as a Texas A &M; '"
- : stipulation in promoting her She student legal adviser. In 1979, the. ,• 4
can't talk softly while she's carry- two were married. ,
ing it. D uring sessions, council Cathy Locke For two years thereafter, Cathy: , „ 'I pi-
members sometimes have difficul Most of the time she s either been averaged almost a thousand miles i `
ty hearing Locke's comments. buried in a law book or behind the - a week between here and Waco
"She's doing a . great job," wheel of a car. before she finished law• school in
Mayor Gary Halter noted. "I She finished out her last two 1981. The hectic schedule slowed. Dining root
: think she's matured a great deal. years at Baylor Law School by somewhat after graduation, when by famous mu
: She's bright, and she's a fast • commuting five days a week from she went to work in the Brazos.
• • worker." Bryan- College Station. County attorney's office. i
• - • Of the candidates interviewed A school counselor had sug- Locke spent two years there
for the job, Halter said Locke gested that young Catherine under County Attorney Jeff 41 , `
had the greatest breadth. Cochran consider Baylor. Brown before moving over to the Cochran i .
• Although some of the other pro - Although Lutherans, the city, where she has been for the Broyhill
spects may have been from larger Cochrans made a trip to Waco. past year and a half. She was ac -' Bussett 1
• I : local governments, he said, most They liked the school, and the Ling city attorney ,after Denton left Keller
had only limited overall ex- costs, which were lower than even in June until her recent appoint-
perience in local government pro- the state schools in Missouri. ment. a n n o
- biems. •
• Locke had a good mentor for �� ��
i her expertise in municipal law. 1 Emma ' Halter has described Denton as
"one of the finest youngattorneys Famous Lane
• m the state of Texas." > Cedar Chest
- Like Denton, Locke ' is a •
- . graduate of . Baylor Law School -
-. ` So is her husband, Jim, who ism: , Ira's Gallery •
- - private practice in College Station,': cordially invites ' r
. and was one of Denton'; COr y you to join us for r• cl Loc ke s. a cham rece f'
Locke grew up outside St. �f
' Louis, Mo. Her father, a retired honoring
Ozark Airlines pilot, operates a r
t `: small private airport. To a large internationally renowned artist
degree, stirrups and stabilizers
• dominated her teen years. = •
La os Mar kos
- t , While a student in the public
schools of Manchester, Mo., on _ f
Locke won ribbons . showing •
' , t English hunter - jumpers. Friday, August 31, 1984
. Locke didn't spend all her time
r in the saddle, though. Virtually all 6 -8 pm, • 'e• •
fam members had their heads in
the clouds. Mr, Markos will personally sign 4
started flying when she - 1 iY11 i teCl edi tl 1 ,
- was in junior high school, and on lithographs i th e gallery
` earned a private pilot's license in
• E on •
Fr iday and Saturday,
_ high school. A younger sister is a `
now a pilot for a commuter 180 Valley K R J
airline, and a younger brother is y View Drive' j
working toward a license. College Station, TX 77840 PROMPT
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