Carrick Hume Buck (1900 - 1959)

Born 5 Jul 1900 in Las Vegas, San Miguel, New Mexico, United States

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Died 18 Oct 1959 at age 59 in Honolulu, Oahu, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

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Biography

Carrick was born in 1900. She was the daughter of Arthur Buck and Henrietta Hume. She passed away in 1959.

Carrick Hume Buck (July 5, 1900 – October 18, 1959) was the first woman to be appointed a judge in Hawaii.

Buck was born in Las Vegas, New Mexico on July 5, 1900 to Arthur Perry Buck and Henrietta Hume Pettijohn. As a child, Buck was sickly and spent most of her time indoors. She witnessed a murder when she was 18, and had to serve as a witness in the court case. While in court, she watched Earl Rogers' defense, and was inspired to study law. She graduated from the University of Southern California in 1920. Buck was the first woman to pass the California Bar exam. She worked for two years in Los Angeles, then moved to Hawaii.

In 1934, Buck was appointed to replace William Charles Achi Jr. on the Fifth Circuit Court on Kauai by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She regularly substituted in other courts in Hawaii, including the Hawaii Supreme Court in 1935. She was appointed to the First Circuit Court in Honolulu in 1942. Buck retired from the bench in 1958, and was replaced by Edgar Crumpacker. Later that year, she opened her own practice. Out of the 4,000 judgments she made throughout her career, only 9 were reversed. Notable cases she presided over include the Morgan's Corner murder. See Therese Wilder.

She died of pneumonia at Queen's Hospital in 1959.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrick_Hume_Buck

Hawaii, Honolulu Passenger Lists, 1900-1953," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVR9-GL3X : 16 March 2018), Carrick Buck, 1927-1928; citing Ship , NARA microfilm publication A3422 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH1N-G8W : accessed 12 October 2019), Carrick H Buck in household of Cara Pettijohn, Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 24, sheet 6B, line 57, family 141, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2633; FHL microfilm 2,342,367.

"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VB9P-5BT : 27 July 2019), Carrick H Buck, Tract K-8, Lihue Judicial District, Representative District 6, Kauai, Hawaii Territory, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 4-19, sheet 12A, line 16, family 254, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 4590.