Madam Chief Justice : Jean Hoefer Toal of South Carolina.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 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 Carolina -- 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 -- 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 -- All Hail the Chief!: Quintessential South Carolinian -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

The biography of the first female Supreme Court Justice of South Carolina.

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