Sue K. Hicks Collections Open Finding Aids

Sue Kerr Hicks (1895-1980) came from a legal family. His father, Charles Wesley Hicks, practiced law for forty years in Madisonville, Tennessee and his uncle, W. J. Hicks, wrote the first manual on the practice of Chancery law in Tennessee. A graduate of Hiwasee College and the University of Kentucky, Hicks was practicing law in Dayton, Tennessee with his brother Herbert E. Hicks, who had been recently appointed acting Rhea County attorney, when the Scopes case arose. Hicks served on the prosecution along with his brother Herbert, District Attorney General A. T. Stewart, local lawyers Wallace C. Haggard, James G. McKenzie, and his father Benjamin G. McKenzie, and former presidential candidate and anti-evolution campaigner William Jennings Bryan. After the trial Hicks went on to serve as a judge in Tennessee and to be active with various civic organizations. He remained interested in the issues involved within the Scopes Trial.

There are two collections for Judge Hicks. The first collection consists of seven boxes divided into five series: Fort Loudon Association; Loudon County History and Elections Material; Court Transcripts; Scopes Trial; and Scopes Trial newspapers and clippings. The second collection collection houses election records, judge's forms, and other items documenting the career of Judge Hicks.

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