Judge Vickers Lee Cunningham, Sr. was destined to be a judge. While in the first grade, Judge Cunningham received a T-shirt from then juveniledistrict Judge Lewis Russell, a neighbor, that read "Here Comes theJudge". It became Judge Cunningham's favorite shirt. Judge Cunningham, a fourth-generation Dallasite who attended DISD schoolsin East Dallas, grew up in a neighborhood surrounded by attorneys and judges. Two doors down from his house was Judge Russell''s house. While he was a little boy, Judge Cunningham helped Judge Russell take care of his garden. They talked as they worked, and Judge Russell encouraged him to study the law. On the next block on the corner lived famed attorney Charles Tessmer. Two blocks over lived District Attorney Henry Wade. Judge Cunningham was in the same class with Barri Wade, Judge Henry Wade, Jr.''s sister. The Cunningham brothers and the Wade children were all about the same age. So, it was inevitable that he would becom...