Sharon Sandle is the executive director of the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society, a nonprofit organization with the mission of educating the public about the judicial branch and its role in Texas’s development. Sharon writes a quarterly column for the Society’s journal in which she has discussed topics as varied as the history of women in the law, reflections on early legal forms, and the legal response to the COVID pandemic. Sharon served as the moderator and commentator for Society-sponsored panels at the TSHA conference and spoke as a panelist at the 2025 conference. Her presentation last year, entitled “Cinderella Season—Title IX and the Evolution of Sports in Texas,” examined Texas’s influence on the passage of Title IX and Title IX’s impact on women’s sports in Texas.
In addition to her role at the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society, Sharon is also the director of the Law Practice Resources Division of the State Bar of Texas, where she oversees the Texas Bar Books publishing department, the Law Practice Management Program, and the Texas Opportunity and Justice Incubator. She served on the Executive Committee of ACLEA, the Association for Continuing Legal Education, and she is a frequent speaker at ACLEA conferences.
Before joining the State Bar of Texas in 2001, Sharon practiced law with the New Mexico law firm Maddox & Holloman, where she focused on civil litigation. She holds a law degree from the University of Texas Law School and a master’s degree in English literature from Texas A&M University.
