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Title Madam Chief Justice : Jean Hoefer Toal of South Carolina / edited by W. Lewis Burke Jr., Joan P. Assey ; foreword by Sandra Day O'Connor ; introduction by Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Publication Info. Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, 2016.
2016

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Description 1 online resource (242 pages)
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Note Includes index.
Contents Foreword -- Introduction -- "It's a girl" -- You don't start out as chief justice -- Into the twentieth century as a lawyer legislator -- A new associate justice -- An unrelenting judicial warrior in south carolina's video poker wars -- Toal on torts (1987-2014) -- Abbeville county school district v. state : changing south carolinar -- Bringing the courts into the twenty-first century -- Family, friends, and community -- The sisterhood of the ladder : the impact of chief justice toal on the rise in participation of women in the legal profession in south carolina -- Personal reflections collected by amelia waring walker -- The lady's a leader -- The hoefer girls -- Observations of chief justice jean hoefer toal -- From my vantage point -- Destined for the records book -- My first glimpse -- An amazing lady -- Reflections of a law clerk -- National leader -- Heeding the call -- Quintessential south carolinian.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Toal, Jean Hoefer, 1943-
Women judges -- South Carolina -- Biography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Burke, William Lewis, editor.
Assey, Joan P., editor.
O'Connor, Sandra Day, 1930-2023 writer of foreword.
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, writer of introduction.
Other Form: Print version: Madam Chief Justice : Jean Hoefer Toal of South Carolina. Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, 2016 xvi, 205 pages 9781611176926 2015043301
ISBN 9781611176926
9781611176933 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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