Without precedent [electronic resource] : the life of Susie Marshall Sharp / Anna R. Hayes.

"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. Anna Hayes presents Sharp's career as an attorney, disti...

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Online Access: Full Text (via HeinOnline) Women and the Law
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Main Author: Hayes, Anna R. (Author)
Other title:HeinOnline women and the law.
HeinOnline UNC Press law publications.
HeinOnline Spinelli's law library reference shelf.
HeinOnline Congress and the courts.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
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Table of 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.