It was the first move in Hawk’s plan to reclaim the district attorney’s office. Despite calls for her resignation, she would not step down. Instead, she planned to drive alone to the Frank Crowley Courts Building later that week and park in her reserved spot.
Here was the head of one of the country’s largest district attorney’s offices admitting she had been to rehab for a pain-pill addiction. And the story made clear that she had misled everyone while running for office.
That’s the story she told the Dallas Morning News, which printed this quote in its report about her impending surgery: “I’ll be stronger than ever when I get back.” Hawk and her husband boarded a flight to Arizona.
She would work to convince everyone she was healthy. She would tell them about her new batch of tools: weekly appointments with a therapist, carefully calibrated medications, guitar lessons to help her unwind. As Hawk sat on the couch that afternoon, she tried to project a strong, clear voice. She sounded like she was campaigning again.
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BLURRED LINES: Mari Woodlief, president of Allyn Media , asked Hawk to run for district attorney in 2013. Somewhere along the way, she became more of a friend than a political advisor. Photography by Elizabeth Lavin
Most prosecutors lasted only a year or two before requesting a transfer. Hawk stayed for five and a half years. Judges and lawyers admired her easy way with young victims and jurors.
They were both blond, in their 40s. But the similarities stopped there. Woodlief is reserved, wears little makeup, and often comes to the office in jeans and flats. Hawk is outgoing and looks more like a Barbie doll, with silk tops and dangling earrings. Woodlief sat at the head of the table, Hawk to her left. Also at the table were Creuzot, Hawk’s father, and a respected criminal defense attorney named Toby Shook.
She asked Creuzot to lunch. Longtime friends, the two had talked over the years about their private struggles with depression.
As the weeks passed, Hawk’s strange behavior continued. Hawk says that at this point, she was still struggling with how to get control of the office. She says she felt a power struggle with Wirskye, that he was shutting her out of important decisions. She also felt he and others were holding the secret of her drug rehab over her head. She was tired of keeping that secret, wanted to tell her office about it, put it squarely in her past.
Hawk and Woodlief first met at the start of the election season in 2013. They sat at a conference table on the sixth floor of a McKinney Avenue office building, the headquarters of Woodlief’s public relations firm, Allyn Media.
She pored through the files and took 24 cases to trial in one year, a workload virtually unheard of at the courthouse.
Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk announced her resignation Tuesday afternoon, saying she needs to focus her undivided attention on her health.
A timeline between Hawk running for Dallas County DA in 2013 and her resignation in September 2016.
Hawk acknowledged in 2015 she sought treatment for addiction to painkillers during her campaign for the DA's office in 2013.
Hawk sworn in as the county's first female DA; first Republican elected to city wide office in a decade.
Unknown at the time, Hawk was driven by a friend to the Menninger Clinic in Houston for treatment for mental illness; Hawk later reveals she spent nine weeks at an in-patient treatment program for depression.
A story published by The Dallas Morning News reveals the DA hasn't been at work for three weeks and those close to her wouldn't say where she was.
Hawk comes clean, tells The Dallas Morning News she's been unable to work and is battling depression.