Hicks, Sue Kerr, 1895-1980

found: Special Collections Online @ The University of Tennessee Finding Aid for the Sue K. Hicks Papers MPA.0137, viewed September 21, 2016 :(Sue Kerr Hicks (1895-1980) a graduate of Hiwasee College and the University of Kentucky, Hicks was practicing law in Dayton, Tennessee; Hicks volunteered to prosecute John T. Scopes who admitted to having taught evolution in his classes, if Scopes did not mind being prosecuted, a test case of the Butler Act in Dayton. Scopes agreed; the trial began in the Dayton courthouse on 10 July 1925 before Judge John T. Raulston) - http://dlc.lib.utk.edu/spc/view?docId=ead/0012_000416_000000_0000/0012_000416_000000_0000.xml;query=Hicks,%20Sue%20%20Kerr%20;brand=default

found: Wikipedia, viewed September 21, 2016 :(Sue K. Hicks. Sue Kerr Hicks (December 12, 1895 - June 17, 1980), born in Madisonville, Tennessee; an American jurist who practiced law and served as a circuit court judge in the state of Tennessee; involved in a discussion over an American Civil Liberties Union advertisement seeking a challenge to the Butler Act; a co-instigator and prosecutor in the 1925 trial of John T. Scopes; In the mid-1960s, Hicks served as president of the Fort Loudoun Association, and led the early opposition to the Tennessee Valley Authority's plans to build Tellico Dam at the mouth of the Little Tennessee River. Hicks died on June 27, 1980 in Sweetwater, Tennessee. Hicks may have also been the inspiration for the Shel Silverstein song "A Boy Named Sue," which was popularized by country music performer Johnny Cash in 1969) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_K._Hicks