Aspero, Nell Agnes Sanders
1908 -

Details
Alias: Nell Agnes Sanders
Born: 8/31/1908 in Corinth, Mississippi
Professional Facts

Practice Area:
Civil Rights
Labor Law
Profession:
Labor Law
Regions and States of Practice:
TN, South
Legal Education:
University of Tennessee College of Law, 1938
Other Education:
Theodor Bohlmann School of Music
New England Conservatory of Music
Columbia University
B.A., Southwestern University
B.S., Tennessee State Teachers College
Positions During Her Career:
President of the Women’s Section of the Tennessee Bar Association (1942-1943)
Vice president of the National Association of Women Lawyers
Professor at Memphis State University’s graduate college of education
Special judge in General Sessions Court
Private practice with husband, Anthony A. Aspero, at Aspero & Sanders
Firsts:
Woman from Memphis to be licensed to practice before the Tennessee Supreme Court (1940)
President of the Women's Section of the Tennessee Bar Association (1942)
Husband-and-wife law firm in Memphis (with Anthony A. Aspero)


Further Research Materials

References:
50 Years of Pioneers: Early Women in the Law
"50 Years of Pioneers: Early Women in the Law." Tennessee Bar Association. Retrieved 2001, available at http://www.tba.org/pioneers.html
Tribute to Nell Sanders Aspero
Tribute to Nell Sanders Aspero (Senate – January 28, 1993), Congressional Record 139 (January 28, 1993) p 1532 (103rd Congress), available at: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r103:S28JA3-80:
Laura Miller Derry, Digest of Women Lawyers and Judges. Lousville, Kentucky: Dunne Press (1949)