Susie Blue Buchanan

Susie Blue Buchanan was Mississippi's first female lawyer.[1][2]

Buchanan, the eldest child of her family, was born on April 2, 1882 to William and Margaret Gunn Buchanan.[3][4] She attended Brandon High School before her receiving her higher education at Mississippi Synodical College, East Mississippi College, Harris Business College and Millsaps College.[5] She worked as an educator before becoming an autodidact of law. Buchanan started reading law while working as a secretary in her father's law office in Brandon, Mississippi. When her father died, Buchanan continued to receive her legal tutelage from her father's law partner. She became the first woman admitted to practice law in Mississippi in 1916 upon being sworn before the Mississippi Supreme Court.[6][7] In 1918, Buchanan became the first female registered with the Mississippi State Bar Association.[8][9] In 1924, she began serving as the Deputy Chancery Clerk of Rankin County, Mississippi. She died on April 11, 1938.[5][10]

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References
  1. The Journal of Mississippi History. Mississippi Department of Archives and History. 1944.
  2. Landon, Michael (1979). The honor & dignity of the profession: a history of the Mississippi State Bar, 1906-1976. Published for the Mississippi Bar Foundation by the University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9780878051014.
  3. Kelly, Douglas F. (1982). The Scottish Blue family from Carolina to Texas. D.F. Kelly.
  4. Wilkerson, Lyn (2010-11-08). Slow Travels-Mississippi. Lyn Wilkerson. ISBN 9781452332291.
  5. "Susie blue Buchanan". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-08-24.
  6. "Capital Area Bar Association". caba.ms. Retrieved 2019-08-24.
  7. "Seen and Heard Here and There About the City". Hattiesburg American. April 14, 1938. Retrieved 2019-08-24.
  8. Association, Mississippi State Bar (1918). Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Mississippi State Bar Association. The Association.
  9. Landon, Michael (2006). The University of Mississippi School of Law: A Sesquicentennial History. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781578069187.
  10. "Susie Blue Buchanan (1882-1938)". Find a Grave.
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