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Macon takes over brokerage firm chair

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Jane Macon, a partner in the Norton Rose Fulbright law firm, will leave at the end of September.
Jane Macon, a partner in the Norton Rose Fulbright law firm, will leave at the end of September.

Former City Attorney Jane Macon has been named chairwoman of the New York brokerage firm Siebert Financial Corp., named for Muriel “Mickie” Siebert, who in 1967 became the first female to own a New York Stock Exchange seat.

Siebert, 80, died of complications stemming from cancer Aug. 24 in New York. Macon, then Siebert Financial director, announced Siebert's death.

Macon, a partner in the San Antonio office of the Norton Rose Fulbright law firm, said Friday she will leave the firm at the end of September. “I told the firm I am starting a new page, a new chapter,” she said.

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She will commute between New York and San Antonio as she continues to practice law, serving her clients.

Upon Siebert's death in August, Macon said Siebert was “a fabulous woman, a trailblazer and a pioneer” who set a high standard for those who entered the financial world after her. “She always pushed the doors open and kept them open for other people to follow.”

On Friday, Macon said, “We're all going to work to make Mickie proud and to carry on her legacy.”

Macon said her friendship with Siebert developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s when then-San Antonio Mayor Lila Cockrell asked Macon to start the Texas Women's Forum, a chapter of the International Women's Forum that Siebert had helped start.

“Mickie was like my sister,” Macon said.

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She has been a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, formerly Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., in San Antonio since 1984.

Macon became a Siebert director on Nov. 8, 1996, as Siebert's company went public.

Macon's legal practice focuses on public finance and administrative law, public and private partnerships, real estate, zoning, platting, condemnation and municipal bonds.

Prior to joining Fulbright & Jaworski, Macon served as the first female city attorney of the city of San Antonio, a position she held from 1977 to 1983.

Siebert, who was born in Cleveland and moved to New York in 1954 at 22, started her career as a trainee in research at Bach & Co. earning $65 a week. She went on to become an industry specialist in airlines and aerospace and later became a partner at brokerages including Brim berg & Co.

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She bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in December 1967 after months of struggling with the male-dominated business world that initially resisted her efforts to join. She established her investment firm the same year and transformed it into a discount brokerage house in 1975.

The Associated Press contributed to this article.

dhendricks@express-news.net

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David Hendricks joined the San Antonio Express-News in February 1976 after receiving a bachelor of journalism degree in December 1975 from the University of Texas at Austin. In 1981, he obtained a master's degree in English literature from the University of Texas at San Antonio. He worked seven years on various beats for the Metro desk before working in 1983 at the Express-News Capitol Bureau in Austin, returning to San Antonio later that year and joining the business section. Hendricks was business editor from 1986 to 1992 and started his business column in 1989. His column now appears twice a week. He also covers international business, chambers of commerce and CC Media Holdings Inc. Hendricks also contributes classical music concert reviews, book reviews and travel articles. He is married to Lucila Hendricks. They have a daughter, Emily.