- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
-
Part I Beginnings -
Chapter 1 Family -
Chapter 2 Formative Years -
Part II Pursuit of the Law -
Chapter 3 University of North Carolina School of Law -
Chapter 4 False Start -
Chapter 5 Sharp & Sharp -
Chapter 6 Politics and Public Life -
Part III Superior Court (1949–1962) -
Chapter 7 Appointment to Superior Court -
Chapter 8 Judge Sharp, Presiding -
Chapter 9 Ambition -
Chapter 10 Theory and Practice -
Chapter 11 The Road to He Supreme Court -
Part IV North Carolina Supreme Court (1962–1979) -
Chapter 12 Taking the Veil -
Chapter 13 Opinions -
Chapter 14 Federal Job Proposals -
Chapter 15 Out of Court -
Chapter 16 Chief Justice Election -
Chapter 17 Chief Justice -
Chapter 18 Equal Rights Amendment -
Chapter 19 Stepping off the Stage - Epilogue
- A Note on Sources
- Selected Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
Theory and Practice
Theory and Practice
- Chapter:
- (p.184) Chapter 10 Theory and Practice
- Source:
- Without Precedent
- Author(s):
Anna R. Hayes
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
This chapter discusses the reason behind the hiatus before Judge Sharp was assigned to hold court in her home county. The hiatus was designed primarily to put some distance between the new judge and her former colleagues in the local bar. Even so, old friends found it difficult to substitute “Your Honor” for “Susie.” Judge Sharp herself was acutely conscious of presiding over the Wentworth courtroom in which she had practiced law for twenty years. About the prospect of holding court at home, she had remarked shortly after going on the bench, “I hope that I will be spared this ordeal for some time to come, as life's worst moment will be when I have to try a case with my father on one side and his lifelong rival on the other.” Susie's father's death did spare her that experience, but there were plenty of former colleagues among whom she would have to allocate justice.
Keywords: Judge Sharp, new judge, Wentworth courtroom, local bar, Your Honor
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
-
Part I Beginnings -
Chapter 1 Family -
Chapter 2 Formative Years -
Part II Pursuit of the Law -
Chapter 3 University of North Carolina School of Law -
Chapter 4 False Start -
Chapter 5 Sharp & Sharp -
Chapter 6 Politics and Public Life -
Part III Superior Court (1949–1962) -
Chapter 7 Appointment to Superior Court -
Chapter 8 Judge Sharp, Presiding -
Chapter 9 Ambition -
Chapter 10 Theory and Practice -
Chapter 11 The Road to He Supreme Court -
Part IV North Carolina Supreme Court (1962–1979) -
Chapter 12 Taking the Veil -
Chapter 13 Opinions -
Chapter 14 Federal Job Proposals -
Chapter 15 Out of Court -
Chapter 16 Chief Justice Election -
Chapter 17 Chief Justice -
Chapter 18 Equal Rights Amendment -
Chapter 19 Stepping off the Stage - Epilogue
- A Note on Sources
- Selected Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index