Rebecca Ramos must have had litigants lined up for blocks when she practiced law in the Lone Star State. Although Miss January graduated magna cum laude with a B.B.A. in finance and passed the bar, the San Antonio native did a career 180 and became a pharmaceutical representative five years ago. "I was a lawyer at a large firm for three years before I moved to Ireland with my fianc?," she says. "That didn't work out, but when I came back I met someone who was a manager at a pharmaceutical company, and he offered me a position." Rebecca boasts a Mexican heritage -- and a highly distinguished one. "My grandfather, Henry Gonzalez, was the first Mexican American in the Texas state senate, and he went on to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives for 30 years, where he became chairman of the Banking and Finance Committee. I remember being in the second grade and reading about him in our history books. My uncle, Charlie Gonzalez, succeeded my grandfather in Congress after he stepped down."
