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Susie Sharp was born on 7 July, 1907 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, U.S., is an American judge. Discover Susie Sharp's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 89 years old?

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Age 89 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 7 July, 1907
Birthday 7 July
Birthplace Rocky Mount, North Carolina, U.S.
Date of death 1996
Died Place Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1907

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 position is elected by the people separately from that of Associate Justice.

Sharp was born in 1907 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina to Annie (née Blackwell) and James M. Sharp but spent most of her life in Rockingham County, North Carolina.

1926

In 1926 she entered law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as the only woman in her class, and graduated Order of the Coif..

1929

In 1929, Sharp went into private practice with her father in the firm of Sharp & Sharp.

1949

In 1949, Governor Kerr Scott appointed her a state Superior Court judge, making her the first female judge in the history of the state.

After Sharp became a Superior Court judge, Tom Bost of the Greensboro Daily News questioned "what would happen if Sharp was faced with trying a case of rape? Wouldn't that be too much for a woman?"

Judge Sharp wrote back that "In the first place, there could have been no rape had not a woman been present, and I consider it eminently fitting that one be in on the 'pay-off'."

Judge Sharp insisted that "to preserve our civilization today requires total participation by us all–men and women–and the impartial administration of justice is the final goal of civilized society."

Sharp believed that it was woman's duty to serve on all juries.

1962

Judge Sharp was re-appointed by successive governors, and in 1962, Governor Terry Sanford made Sharp the first female Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.

1965

In 1965, Lorna E. Lockwood became the first female chief justice of a state supreme court, but in Arizona, the Supreme Court justices elect their chief justice.

1966

Justice Sharp was elected by the people that November and again in November 1966 to a full eight-year term.

1974

In 1974, voters gave her 74 percent of the vote to elect her Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, succeeding her close friend, Chief Justice William H. Bobbitt.

1976

Time, in its January 5, 1976 cover story, named Sharp one of the 12 "women of the year" for 1975.

In so doing, Time called her a "trail blazer" with a "reputation as both a compassionate jurist and an incisive legal scholar".

Senator Sam Ervin, a fellow Democrat, recommended to President Richard Nixon that he appoint her to the United States Supreme Court.

1979

By law, Justice Sharp had to retire at age 72, which came in 1979.

1980

After retiring, she successfully pushed for a constitutional amendment in 1980 that required all judges to be lawyers after her 1974 opponent was a fire extinguisher salesman.

1981

Nixon declined the advice, and a woman would not be appointed to the Court until Sandra Day O'Connor in 1981.

During Justice Sharp's 17-year tenure on the Supreme Court, she wrote 459 majority opinions, 124 concurring opinions, and 45 dissenting opinions.

1996

Sharp died at age 88, in 1996.

Justice Sharp was also the aunt of Susie Sharp Newsom Lynch, subject of the book Bitter Blood by Jerry Bledsoe.