- 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
Chief Justice
Chief Justice
- Chapter:
- (p.367) Chapter 17 Chief Justice
- Source:
- Without Precedent
- Author(s):
Anna R. Hayes
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
This chapter focuses on Chief Justice Susie Marshall Sharp's swearing-in ceremony, in which she devoted her first official remarks largely to a tribute to retiring chief justice Bobbitt and associate justice Higgins, lamenting the mandatory retirement law that was forcing them off the court. The state would be the poorer for their absence, Justice Sharp said, but—referring to her own age-limited term—she quipped that “the law that impoverished the state in 1974 may very well save it in 1979.” The ceremony took only fifteen minutes, but it came nearly half a century after the pudgy young Susie Sharp had launched her unprecedented career when she entered law school at UNC. Twenty years as a practicing lawyer, thirteen as a superior court judge, and another thirteen on the state supreme court had earned her this day, January 2, 1975, when she was sworn in as chief justice. She was sixty-seven years old.
Keywords: Chief Justice, Susie Marshall Sharp, swearing-in ceremony, chief justice Bobbitt, associate justice Higgins, mandatory retirement law
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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
