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2020 NBA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Journal

LAURA BAKER, President MICHAEL ABELOW, President-Elect Journal BRANT PHILLIPS, First Vice President TRACY KANE, Second Vice President BART PICKETT, Secretary JEFF ALLEN, Treasurer JUSTIN CAMPBELL, Assistant Treasurer GILBERT SCHUETTE, YLD President LELA HOLLABAUGH, General Counsel LAURA SMITH, Immediate Past President LYNNE INGRAM, First Vice President-Elect DANIEL BEREXA, Second Vice President-Elect

HON. MELISSA BLACKBURN BRIGID CARPENTER RAQUEL L. EVE OLUYEMO LORA BARKENBUS FOX MARY TAYLOR GALLAGHER JEFF GIBSON WILLIAM “PAZ” HAYNES MARTESHA JOHNSON HON. ELLEN HOBBS LYLE MARLENE ESKIND MOSES JUNAID ODUBEKO LIZ SITGREAVES ERIC SMITH DARKENYA WALLER LUTHER WRIGHT, JR. HON. BILL YOUNG GULAM ZADE STEPHEN ZRALEK

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MONICA MACKIE, Executive Director SHIRLEY CLAY, Finance Coordinator CAMERON GEARLDS, CLE Coordinator TRACI HOLLANDSWORTH, Programs & Events Coordinator JILL PRESLEY, Marketing & Communications Director VICKI SHOULDERS, Membership Coordinator, Office Manager

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Celebrating 100 Years of Woman Suffrage

The annual Law Day lunch has been rescheduled to Thursday, August 13, from 1:00pm to 4:30pm, and will be combined with a very special event—100 Years of Woman Suffrage: Honoring the Past, Looking to the Future—to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment.

This program will be held in the House Chamber of the Tennessee State Capitol where the pivotal vote was cast giving women the right to vote. The event will include a two-hour CLE program—including a keynote address given by Justice Anita Earls of the North Carolina Supreme Court—and panel discussions exploring Nashville’s critical role in the suffrage movement and the impact on other voter rights movements that have followed. Stay up-to-date on the latest at NashvilleBar.org/Suffrage. n

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Graduation for the Class of 2020 has been postponed due to COVID-19 and the social distancing guidelines set forth by the city of Nashville. Congratulations to everyone on your hard work! n

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Due to health and safety concerns of participants and staff surrounding COVID-19, we have postponed all scheduled in-person CLEs. We will continue to provide you with updates as we have them. Thank you for your patience during these uncertain times.

JUNE 2020 LIVE ZOOM SEMINARS

Lunch with the Judges Series

June 11 | 12:00-1:00pm Judge Monte Watkins, Criminal Court Division V

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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History A Conversation about Suffrage with the Honorable Martha Craig “Cissy” Daughtrey

MARGARET BEHM: As someone who has made history over and over again, what does “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History” mean to you?

JUDGE CISSY DAUGHTERY: In a sense, I take this phrase completely at face value. For so long it was true that a woman had to break the mold in a million pieces to get in the history books. I have this phrase on a bumper sticker on the refrigerator at my office. It reminds me that occasionally I need to, for whatever reason, stick my neck out. That happens to be something I’ve never been terribly shy about.

MB: The history of the fight to pass the 19th Amendment is often left out of the history books or given a passing reference. How and when did you become interested in this topic?

JCD: I was teaching at Vanderbilt Law School and started considering the idea of teaching a course on women in the law. I knew it would be risky, because the subject would be off the mainstream of what was taught at the law school. The other problem was I didn’t know much about the subject matter! But the few women law students were pushing for a seminar. That’s when I plowed into the subject, and I’ve never looked back. I think if I was still in the academy rather than on the bench, this is where I would have gone with my scholarship and teaching.

MB: What is it about the battle to get votes for women that resonates with you?

JCD: There are two things: One is how important woman suffrage is to history, and the other is how important woman suffrage is to me personally.

The main thing about the 19th Amendment that appeals to me is how long it took to get the vote, and the sacrifices the women in the movement made.

Most people trace woman suffrage to the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention. Equal suffrage turned out to be controversial at the convention but ultimately made it into the Declaration of Sentiments. It took 72 years and many sacrifices between 1848 and 1920 to get the vote. Think of all the women traveling all over the country trying to achieve the right to vote for women, starting with local elections. There were many failures and few victories, like a woman elected to the school board in Omaha. It was a long, hard slog. But it wasn’t just wear and tear on the women and their families. In the end, there was torture and force-feeding of suffragists in prison. That’s what it took to finally push the men in Congress to pass the 19th Amendment and send it to the states for ratification.

The other thing that appeals to me is the whole story of Harry Burn. I love to tell young people the story about him changing his vote at the last minute because his mother wrote him a letter and said be a good boy and vote for ratification.

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He was very young at the time, so he was not too much more than a boy. But the whole moral of the story is that if you’re apathetic because you think one person can’t make a difference, you are wrong. To me this is the most dramatic “one person can make a difference” story that’s ever been told. With that one vote he enfranchised— at least theoretically—26 million women in this country. We know, of course, that 6 million African American women in the South didn’t get to vote for a long time, but there were 20 million women in the country who suddenly had this right, a circumstance that rose and fell on Harry Burn’s vote that morning in August 1920 in Nashville, Tennessee.

MB: You have over 200 books in your chambers about women’s equality. Tell us about your collection of feminist literature.

JCD: I started collecting books when the second wave of the women’s movement came into existence. I was on the law faculty from 1971 to 1975. These were heady times for the women’s movement and its intellectual development. Women everywhere were writing articles and books were coming out in numbers that none of us had ever seen before. As you know for having seen them, most came out in paperback because the publishers were leery about printing hardbacks when they didn’t know whether the books would sell.

I have most of what was published from that early period. One of the things that has kept me from retiring was the fact that I didn’t know what would happen to the book collection. My thought was that all the paperback books would end up in a shredding machine, once I let go of them. And I wanted these books to be kept together and—I hope—prove useful in the future. Now, I have found a place for them! My collection has been accepted for the Votes for Women Room

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MB: Tell me about a couple of your favorite books about the women’s movement.

JCD: Century of Struggle, written by Eleanor Flexner, was so eye-opening and an education all in itself. It’s the book I’ve bought and given to people over the years. It’s still in print.

The Southern Lady written by another historian, Anne Firor Scott, just knocked me out because it has so much to do with how girls in the South were raised and brainwashed. It was so exciting to find out there were women in the South who absolutely broke the mold. They were anti-slavery and pro-suffrage and definitely not “well-behaved.”

I came from a family that was very conservative. In fact, my family history indicates that my grandmother, who was born in Williamson County just before 1890, married about 20 years later and was an anti-suffragist. One regret I have is that I never had the chance to ask her about it. I do know that she relented at some point and went to the polls on election days.

MB: You also own a rare collection of the four volumes of History of Woman Suffrage, autographed by co-author Susan B. Anthony, with a different inscription about suffrage for each volume. How did you acquire these books, and what do they signify?

JCD: I found out that they existed back when I was teaching the seminar on

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