Pearlene Vestal Glasrud

Pearlene Vestal Glasrud, nee Evelyn Pearlene Vestal, is a retired Attorney currently residing in San Antonio, Texas. Born in Lamesa, Texas, Pearlene Vestal lived in O'Donnell and Plainview, Texas. She graduated from Plainview High School, spent a year at Texas Christian University, before receiving her baccalaureate degree as well as a master’s degree in government at Texas Tech University. In between attending classes toward her B.A. and M.A., Vestal worked in Dallas for Blue Cross/Blue Shield and for Lone Star Mud. Shortly after receiving her master's degree, she married Bruce A. Glasrud, a doctoral candidate from Minnesota at Texas Tech. They spent the ensuing year at Seguin, Texas, where Pearlene Vestal Glasrud served as the Administrative Assistant for the University Dean of Texas Lutheran

College. The following summer she taught courses in American Government at San Antonio College. Beginning in the fall, and for the next three years, she received an appointment as Instructor and taught American Government classes at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.

Then she and her husband moved to the San Francisco Bay area in 1968 where they resided in

Hayward and later Castro Valley, California. Her husband taught history at California State University, Hayward (now East Bay). Pearlene Glasrud worked for two years in the clerical backrooms of Shuman, Agnew and Company, a financial services firm in San Francisco. Always determined to earn an advanced degree, she then attended and received her juris doctorate (J.D.) degree from the renowned, San Francisco-based, University of California Hastings School of Law.

Over the next thirty-plus years Pearlene Vestal Glasrud practiced law from her offices in

Hayward in the East Bay region of northern California, principally in the cities of Oakland, Hayward, and Fremont. Her first position after earning her law degree and passing the California State Bar Exam was with the Legal Aid Society of Alameda County, but after a couple of years she decided to enter private practice. Although generally Glasrud worked from her own private law office, for a few years she and three other attorneys formed the Law Offices of Greenfield, Glasrud, Fisher, and Skinner. A California Bar-certified specialist in Family Law, she became a highly respected member of the legal community from which she received a number of firsts and a few plaudits. She was the first woman elected as president of the Southern Alameda County Bar Association and received from the Alameda County Secretary's Association its Boss of the Year Award. She always saved some time for those in need of volunteer legal assistance, and each year provided Pro Bono support and advice for them. Among her other contributions to the legal community of California, she taught Continuing Education of the Bar courses in "Family Law." In 2001 Pearlene Vestal Glasrud decided to retire and moved back to Texas, first to

Alpine, then to Seguin, and subsequently to San Antonio, where she and her husband Bruce, and dog Lacey, reside. In retirement she enjoys cooking, reading, especially mysteries and the newspapers, watching news programs on television, including Rachel Maddow who also resided in Castro Valley earlier in her life. Pearlene Glasrud enjoys visiting with friends as well as relatives from the Vestal family and with relatives of her husband, Bruce Glasrud. She has been known to enjoy playing the slot machines at cities such as Reno, Las Vegas, and Eagle Pass. Pearlene Glasrud also used her analytical and professional skills to edit each of her husbands' publications and writing efforts, beginning early in their marriage with his Texas Tech dissertation on "Black Texans."

Pearlene was born to Tom & Thelma (Deavers) Vestal on May 17, 1939. She died quietly, early in the

morning, of March 14, 2025, at Stone Oak Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas at the age of 85. There will be no service. Her remains will be sent to Roselawn Memorial Park, Monona, Wisconsin.