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Cadena graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University Of Texas Law School in 1940 . His legal practice began after a term as a Radio operator in the US Army Air Corps during World War II . He was later hired to teach law at St. Mary's University. Cadena worked with fellow attorney Gus Garcia in the landmark case '' Hernandez V. Texas '' ( 1954 ), arguing before the US Supreme Court for the end of a practice of systematic exclusion of Hispanic s from jury service in Jackson County, Texas . The high court ruled that people could not be excluded from jury duty based on their national origin. Even though Mexican-American s composed more than 10 % of the county's population, no person of Mexican ancestry had served in a jury there in over 25 years. Cadena was still teaching law at St. Mary's when, in 1965 , Texas governor John Connolly appointed him an associate justice on the 4th Court Of Appeals . He was named the Court's chief justice in 1977 by then governor Dolph Briscoe. Cadena held this position until his retirement in 1990 . |
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