[1] She received her juris doctor at the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1976.

[3] Connor married Attorney and state legislator Palmer Freeman.

[4] She became the first female judge for the South Carolina Circuit Court in 1988 for Richland and Kershaw counties.

[2] In 1993, she became the first woman judge on the South Carolina Court of Appeals.

[2] In 1984, she became the first woman to be an acting justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court.