Record #:

5875

Author(s):

O'Mara, Sheila Long

Abstract:

Susie M. Sharp blazed a trail for women in the legal profession. In 1926, she was the first woman to attend law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; in 1949, she became the state's first female judge; in 1974, she became the first woman in the nation to be elected a Chief Justice of a state Supreme Court.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 71 Issue 1, June 2003, p84, 86, por

Subject(s):

Sharp, Susie Marshall, 1907-1996