RIP Steve Russell

I learned last night that another dear friend died yesterday. Steve Russell, birth name Steve Teehee, was an enrolled Cherokee, born in Oklahoma on the Muscogee Nation, who spent the majority of his life in and around Austin, Texas. He was a writer, author, judge, activist, teacher, husband, father, role model, and friend. Of all these ribbons, he was most proud of Writer. It mattered the most to him.

Steve wrote poetry, essays, social criticism, legal briefs, decisions, letters, emails, and checks to family and causes. He wrote in the Thurgood Marshall Law Review, the Georgetown University Public…