Sarah Shields
Sarah Shields was Arkansas' first female lawyer.[1][2][3] Shields graduated from the University of Kentucky Law School and completed her postgraduate work at the Cumberland School of Law in Tennessee[4] On January 28, 1918, Shields became the first female to be called to the Arkansas Bar Association.[5][6][7] She married attorney Thomas Cal (T.C.) Jobe and stopped practicing law when the couple moved to Washington whereupon Jobe was elected to the U.S. Senate. She died on January 23, 1983.
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- ^ Wright, Robert R. (2001). Old Seeds in the New Land: History and Reminiscences of the Bar of Arkansas. University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 9780943099255.
- ^ Evins, Janie Synatzske (1985). "Arkansas Women: Their Contribution to Society, Politics, and Business, 1865-1900". The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 44 (2): 118–133. doi:10.2307/40023269. ISSN 0004-1823. JSTOR 40023269.
- ^ Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 1985.
- ^ "OCTOBER 1984". Issuu. January 1984. Retrieved 2019-08-23.
- ^ "Women's Legal History" (PDF). Stanford University.
- ^ "Leaders in the law". Arkansas Online. 2015-11-01. Retrieved 2019-08-23.
- ^ Ross, Frances Mitchell (1998). "Reforming the Bar: Women and the Arkansas Legal Profession". University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
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