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After working as an accountant, getting married, and having two daughters, Chief Justice Contreras received her Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from theUniversity of Houston Law Center in 1990. She went on to manage a lawoffice in San Antonio, make partner at a civil trial firm, and then open her own mediation practice.
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