About Sarah Shields
Lived 1892 – 1983 (aged 90–91). Sarah Shields was a lawyer.
Sarah Shields was Arkansas' first female lawyer. Shields graduated from the University of Kentucky Law School and completed her postgraduate work at the Cumberland School of Law in Tennessee On January 28, 1918, Shields became the first female to be called to the Arkansas Bar Association. 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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American lawyer (1892-1983)
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Sarah Shields was born in 1892.
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Sarah Shields died on 23 January 1983.
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