The Complex and Courageous Campaign for Women's Suffrage and Parity in Our Democracy: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment 21-103 Friday, July 16, 2021 presented by The South Carolina Bar -Continuing Legal Education Division And American Bar Association Judicial Division SC Supreme Court Commission on CLE Course No. 217670 1 Table of Contents Agenda ...................................................................................................................................................3 Speaker Biographies .............................................................................................................................4 A Historical Overview of Women’s Suffrage ....................................................................................15 Professor Marjorie Spruill Race, Class, and Gender in Suffrage Movement ...............................................................................16 Professor Marjorie Sruill, Professor Paula Monopoli, Professor Tracy Thomas Benched: The Right to Vote and the Right to Rule ..........................................................................28 The Honorable J. Michelle Childs, The Honorable Jean H. Toal, The Honorable Bernette Johnson, The Honorable Eva Guzman The Military and Women: One Hundred Years of Changes Through the Rule of Law, Service and Sacrifice .........................................................................................................................................29 The Honorable James Lockemy, Lt. Col. Tally Parham Casey, Col. Tara Osborn, Col. (Ret.) Gail Curley The Modern Movement Toward Gender Equality ............................................................................204 Sutania Fuller, Dean Danielle Holley-Walker, Nekki Shutt, Anne Louise Peterson, Adair Boroughs SC Bar-CLE publications and oral programs are intended to provide current and accurate information about the subject matter covered and are designed to help attorneys maintain their professional competence. 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Michelle Childs Opening Remarks Dean William Hubbard 9:10-10:00 am A Historical Overview of Women’s Suffrage Professor Marjorie Spruill 10:00-11:15 am Race, Class, and Gender in the Suffrage Movement Moderator: Professor Marjorie Spruill Professor Paula Monopoli Professor Tracy Thomas 11:15-11:30 am Morning Break 11:30-12:45 pm Benched: The Right to Vote and the Right to Rule Moderator: The Honorable J. Michelle Childs The Honorable Jean H. Toal The Honorable Bernette Johnson The Honorable Eva Guzman 12:45-1:15 pm Break/Lunch Distribution 1:15-1:45 pm Lunch Keynote: “Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait? Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the Right to Vote” Tina Cassidy 1:45-2:00 pm Break 2:00-3:15 pm The Military and Women: One Hundred Years of Changes Through the Rule of Law, Service and Sacrifice Moderator: The Honorable James Lockemy Lt. Col. Tally Parham Casey Col. Tara Osborn Col. (Ret) Gail A. Curley 3:15-3:30 pm Afternoon Break 3:30-4:45 pm The Modern Movement Toward Gender Equality Moderator: Sutania A. Fuller Dean Danielle Holly-Walker Nekki Shutt Anne Louise Peterson Adair Boroughs 4:45-5:00 pm Closing Remarks The Honorable J. Michelle Childs 3 The Complex and Courageous Campaign for Women's Suffrage and Parity in Our Democracy: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES (by order of presentation) The Honorable J. Michelle Childs U.S. District Court, District of S.C. The Honorable J. Michelle Childs was appointed to the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina in August 2010. She holds a B.S. in Management from the University of South Florida Honors College, a J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law, a Masters in Personnel and Employment Relations from the University of South Carolina's Darla Moore School of Business, and a Masters of Judicial Studies from Duke University School of Law. Prior to the federal court, she served as an At-Large Circuit Court Judge, including having responsibilities as the Chief Administrative Judge for General Sessions and Business Court for the Fifth Judicial Circuit of Richland and Kershaw Counties. Judge Childs also had the distinct honor of gubernatorial appointments as a Workers' Compensation Commissioner (2002-06) and as the Deputy Director for the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation's Division of Labor (2000-02), overseeing programs for Wages and Child Labor, OSHA, OSHA Voluntary Programs, Elevators and Amusement Rides, Migrant Labor, and Labor-Management Mediation. Judge Childs was formerly a partner with the law firm of Nexsen Pruet Jacobs & Pollard, LLP, in Columbia, South Carolina, where she practiced in the areas of employment and labor law and general litigation. Judge Childs is very active with various local, state, and national bar organizations, as well as community organizations. She currently serves as chair of the American Bar Association's Judicial Division and Secretary of the American Bar Association's Labor and Employment Law Section. She is also a member of the American Law Institute and the Council of the American Bar Association's Section of Litigation. As a practicing lawyer and judge, she has lectured and served frequently on panels for topics regarding litigation and trial techniques, courtroom practices and procedures, discovery and expert witness issues, evidence, and various topics for new lawyers. Dean William Hubbard University of South Carolina School of Law William C. Hubbard served as president of the American Bar Association in 2014–2015. As president, he led efforts to increase access to justice through innovation, reform the criminal justice system, provide legal assistance to unaccompanied immigrant children, improve support for victims of domestic violence, and strengthen the rule of law globally. He previously served a two-year term as chair of the ABA’s House of Delegates. Hubbard is a past president of the American Bar Foundation and a past president of the American Bar Endowment. From 2019–2020, he served as chair of the Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, which reports to the DOJ and the U.S. Senate on the qualifications of federal judicial nominees. Hubbard is chair of the Board of the World Justice Project, a multinational, multidisciplinary initiative to strengthen the rule of law worldwide. He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the American Board of Trial Advocates. 4 Hubbard is a member of the Council of the American Law Institute. He is a member of the Leaders Council of the Legal Services Corporation. He is an Honorary Master of the Bench of Middle Temple in London. In 2002, Hubbard was presented the Order of the Palmetto, the highest civilian award presented by a South Carolina governor. In 2007, he received the American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit. In 2016, the Burton Foundation, in collaboration with the Library of Congress, named Hubbard the recipient of its inaugural “Leadership in Law” award. Hubbard served on the Board of Trustees of the University of South Carolina from 1986–2020 and served as chairman of the board from 1996–2000. He earned a Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1977 and a Bachelor of Arts in History, magna cum laude, from the University of South Carolina in 1974. As an undergraduate, Hubbard received the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, the university’s highest student award. In 2009, he received the university’s Distinguished Alumni Award. In 2010, the university awarded him its highest recognition, the Honorary Doctor of Laws. After law school, Hubbard was law clerk to U.S. District Judge Robert F. Chapman. He is a former partner with Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP in Columbia, SC. Professor Marjorie Spruill Distinguished Professor Emerita History Department, University of South Carolina Professor Spruill specializes in United States history, particularly women's and gender history and the history of the American South. She teaches courses in U. S. women's history, southern history, recent American history, and historical methodology. She is the author of New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States (Oxford University Press) and the editor of One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement (NewSage Press); VOTES FOR WOMEN! The Woman Suffrage Movement in Tennessee, the South, and the Nation (University of Tennessee Press). She is co-editor of The South in the History of the Nation: A Reader (Bedford/St. Martin's); the three-volume anthology South Carolina