With the Powerball lottery’s jackpot topping $1 billion this week, the potential to win financial freedom looms in the minds of many. This lottery fever reminds us of former lottery winner Winston Shepherd, a public defender in Dallas County.
Texas Lawyer featured Shepherd’s story in 2004, seven years after March 29, 1997, the day when Shepherd and 22 other then-staffers in the Dallas County Public Defender’s Office won $45 million in the Texas lottery. Among the winners were 16 lawyers, four investigators, two legal assistants and one interpreter—roughly half the public defender’s office—who had pooled their bets and became overnight millionaires. Each was scheduled to receive their $1.8 million windfall over a 25-year period, $78,000 annually.
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