Judge Susie Marshall Sharp
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N 36° 20.893 W 079° 39.474
17S E 620429 N 4023407
Located in Greenview Cemetery in Reidsville, NC
Waymark Code: WM9BPY
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 07/27/2010
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Susie Marshall Sharp was born in Rocky Mount, NC but her family moved to Reidsville when she was in the second grade. She graduated from Reidsville High School in 1924 and in 1926 entered law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as the only woman in her class. In 1939, she began working as city attorney of Reidsville, making her the first female city attorney in the state. In 1949 she was appointed as the first female judge to the North Carolina Superior Court, and in 1962 she was appointed to the state Supreme Court, another first for a Tar Heel woman. Receiving an astounding seventy-four-percent of the vote in 1974, she became the first American female to be elected chief justice of a state Supreme Court.
Description:
In 1979, by law she had to retire at the age of 72. After retiring, she successfully pushed for a constitutional amendment in 1980 that required all judges to be lawyers. Justice Sharp was also the aunt of first-cousin serial killers Susie Sharp Newsom Lynch and "Fritz" Klenner.
Date of birth: 07/07/1907
Date of death: 03/01/1996
Area of notoriety: Politics
Marker Type: Headstone
Setting: Outdoor
Visiting Hours/Restrictions: No Trespassing After Dark / No Trespassing From 9 PM to 6 AM
Fee required?: No
Web site: [Web Link]
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