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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777961403321
• Autore: Hayes Anna R
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2008
• ISBN: 1-4696-0580-5; 0-8078-8781-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (576 p.)
• Disciplina: 347.73/14092; B
• Soggetti: Women judges - North Carolina
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 521-529) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.Anna Hayes presents Sharp's career as an attorney, distinguished judge, and politician within the context of the social mores, the legal profession, and the political battles of her day, illuminated by a c