$14 Million Bequeathed to Two Law Schools
The estate of the first woman to win a case before the North Carolina Supreme Court nearly 80 years ago has pledged $14 million to two North Carolina law schools.
Kathrine R. Everett, one of Chapel Hill’s first female law graduates, made state legal history in 1920 by becoming the first woman to win a case before its highest court, said Judith Wegner, dean of UNC’s law school. Everett died in 1992 at 98 after a legal career spanning seven decades.
In her will, she bequeathed $14 million to the law schools at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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