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Susie Marshall Sharp (July 7, 1907 – March 1, 1996) was an American jurist who served as the first female chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. She was not the first woman to head the highest court in a U.S. state , but is believed to be the first woman elected to such a post in a state, like North Carolina , in which the ...
Susie Sharp, the first woman to be appointed chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Image courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries. Judge Susie Sharp was an old school Southern Democrat.
Susie Sharp. Whilst a London dance student in London, Susie started her radio career aged 17 in hospital radio. She danced professionally in the light entertainment field across the UK, Europe, Canada, Bermuda and the Caribbean.
Susie Marshall Sharp was not the first or only woman of formidable intelligence in North Carolina or elsewhere. Nor was she the first woman to aspire to a career in the law. And yet, indisputably the number of women then at the pinnacle of public life, and particularly in the legal profession, was minuscule.
Mar 3, 1996 · Susie Marshall Sharp, the first woman to be popularly elected to the post of chief justice of a state supreme court in the United States, died on Friday at her home. She was 88.
As a female pioneer in the state's legal profession, Susie Sharp saw North Carolina women gain the right to serve on a jury, achieved recognition as one of the earliest female political operatives on a statewide level, and influenced the national outcome of the vote on the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Feb 11, 2009 · “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.
