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Author Hayes, Anna R., author.

Title Without precedent : the life of Susie Marshall Sharp / Anna R. Hayes
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 559 pages) : illustrations
Contents Family -- Formative years -- University of North Carolina School of Law -- False start -- Sharp & Sharp -- Politics and public life -- Appointment to Superior Court -- Judge Sharp, presiding -- Ambition -- Theory and practice -- The road to the Supreme Court -- Taking the veil -- Opinions -- Federal job proposals -- Out of court -- Chief justice election -- Chief justice -- Equal rights amendment -- Stepping off the stage
Summary The first woman judge in the state of North Carolina and the first woman in the United States to be elected chief justice of a state supreme court, Susie Marshall Sharp (1907-1996) broke new ground for women in the legal profession. When she retired in 1979, she left a legacy burnished by her tireless pursuit of lucidity in the law, honesty in judges, and humane conditions in prisons
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-529) and index
Notes Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed September 13, 2016)
Subject Sharp, Susie, 1907-1996.
SUBJECT Sharp, Susie, 1907-1996
Sharp, Susie, 1907-1996 fast
Subject Women judges -- North Carolina -- Biography
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch.
LAW -- Legal Services.
LAW -- Civil Procedure.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Lawyers & Judges.
Women judges
North Carolina
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008008442
ISBN 9780807887813
0807887811
9781469605807
1469605805