When Sedora Jefferson was growing up in Norwalk, Conn., the only lawyers she knew were the television characters Perry Mason and Ben Matlock.

“They were courtroom lawyers dealing with criminal cases, so that was my only image of lawyers, and I knew I didn’t want to do that,” says Jefferson, the associate executive director and general counsel of the Texas Association of School Boards Inc. (TASB) in Austin.

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