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Interview no. | B-0053 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | B.1. Individual Biographies: General |
Project description | Biographical interviews, 1962-1983, aimed at balancing the lack of personal letters and diaries, which are becoming increasingly scarce in the public record. Interviewees include educators, business leaders, political activists, professional workers, authors, artists, homemakers, tobacco workers, domestic servants, and others in North Carolina and the southern region. |
Date | May 23, 1983 |
Interviewee | Sharp, Susie, 1907-1996. |
Interviewee occupation | Judges |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Devine, Pat (M. Patricia) |
Abstract | First met Naomi Morris when she was a legal secretary 30 years ago; Morris consulted Sharp about her court of appeals appointment; Sharp appointed Morris Chief Judge of Appeals Court; qualities of a good judge; Morris and Sharp were heads of their respective courts at the same time, but little was made of this fact; no other woman has run for or served on either court; difficulties of running for position; merits of electing judges; Sharp's father and Morris' former employer helped them become lawyers; she couldn't have mixed career and family but women today may be able to. |
Subject Topical | Women judges--North Carolina. |
Citation | Interview with Susie Sharp by Pat (M. Patricia) Devine, 23 May 1983. B-0053 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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Interview no. | B0053_Audio |