Lawyers from both ends of the political spectrum Monday remembered Anne Ware Lewis, a voting law expert and general counsel of the state Republican Party who died Sunday after a yearslong battle against cancer. She was 56.

Frank Strickland of Taylor English Duma recalled interviewing Lewis for a summer clerk position at his small firm in 1987. “She was such a genuine person,” said Strickland. “That sort of jumped off the page.”