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.
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SUBJECT |
Sharp, Susie, 1907-1996
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Sharp, Susie, 1907-1996 fast |
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Women judges -- North Carolina -- Biography
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch.
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LAW -- Legal Services.
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LAW -- Civil Procedure.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Lawyers & Judges.
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Women judges
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North Carolina
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Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2008008442 |
ISBN |
9780807887813 |
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0807887811 |
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9781469605807 |
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1469605805 |
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