Elizabeth Dodge Schwab ’94

Elizabeth, who battled cancer while graduating with honors from law school and then joined one of the nation's foremost law firms, died July 30, 2005. She was 33.

Doctors diagnosed her breast cancer in 1997, during her final year at the University of Texas School of Law. "She was taking chemo when she took the bar exam when she was 24," her husband, David Michael Schwab, said. "She passed on the first try."

Before enrolling at Texas, she had graduated with honors from St. John's School in Houston and with high honors from Princeton. During her second year in law school, she was hired as a summer associate by energy law firm Vinson & Elkins.

A seventh-generation Texan, Elizabeth was a descendant of J.B. Pier, who took part in the Battle of San Jacinto. She was in the Daughters of the Republic of Texas and the San Jacinto Descendants. She also was a member of the Junior League of Houston, The Park People, and the board of stewards of St. Luke's United Methodist Church.

She is survived by her husband; her mother; a brother, John Hopkins Dodge III; and a sister, Alice Anne Dodge.

The Class of 1994