Ann Richards and a national champion for abortion ... and that post helped vault the future governor to statewide office when she won the race for state treasurer in 1982. Cecile's father, David ...

She was the daughter of Ann Richards, a politician who also served as Texas' governor. Following her departure from Planned Parenthood, Richards founded Supermajority, an organization that ...

Richards is the daughter of Ann Richards, who was the first woman to be elected governor of Texas. The longtime activist joined Planned Parenthood in 2006 and led the nonprofit organization for 12 ...

When asked by the Cut last year why she continued her activism even after such a devastating diagnosis, she quoted her mother, the late Texas Governor Ann Richards: “Why should your life only be ...

Richards was the daughter of the late former Texas Governor Ann Richards. Her family said, “If you’d like to celebrate Cecile today, we invite you to put on some New Orleans jazz, gather with ...

She worked with her mother, Ann Richards, to win her campaign for Texas governor in the 1990s. In the early 2000s, she worked for then-Rep. Nancy Pelosi as her deputy chief of staff. In 2006 ...