Roanoke lawyer Bill Rakes knows Harriet Miers

The Roanoke paper has this column with the observations of Gentry Locke's Bill Rakes on his friend Harriet Miers, whom he got to know in connection with American Bar Association activities. Rakes says she would make a fine justice, and that she is a "by-the-rules sort of person," that she is very personable, yet "tough as nails."