Former Alamo Trust president sues, says she resigned under pressure from conservative officials

Teona Gherasim

Kate Rogers, the former president of the Alamo Trust which manages San Antonio’s historic site, sued Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham and the trust’s board Monday, weeks after she resigned under pressure from conservative officials. Rogers filed the suit in federal court, seeking to reclaim her old job and asking for an unspecified amount of damages from Patrick, Buckingham and the board. In the suit, Rogers claims that Patrick and Buckingham “ignored” her First Amendment