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Jane Matilda Bolin, LL.B. (April 11, 1908 – January 8, 2007) was the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School, the first to join the New York City Bar Association and the first to join the New York City Law Department. She became the first black woman to serve as a judge in the United States when she was sworn into the bench of the New York City Domestic Relations Court in 1939.
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On the Shoulders of Giants: Judge Jane Bolin After enrolling into college she maintained her academic excellence and managed to earn a Bachelors of Arts Degr...
Thank you, my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that April 11 is the anniversary of the birth of the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School Jane Matilda Bolin who also had the distinction of being the first to join the New York City Bar Association and the first to join the New York City Law Department.
Rest in peace Jane Bolin!
Background from famousbiographies.org/jane-bolin-biography/
"Jane Bolin Biography:
She served on the Family Court bench for four decades, advocating for kids and families via external associations at the same time. Her dad was an attorney who headed the Dutchess County Bar Association and cared for the household after his own wife’s sickness and passing, which happened when Bolin was a kid.
Jane Bolin was a brilliant student who graduated from high school in her mid-teens and went to enrol at Wellesley College. Though facing obvious racism and social isolation, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1928 and was formally acknowledged as among the best students of her class. She then attended Yale Law School, competing with additional societal hostilities, though still graduating in 1931 and thereby becoming the first African American woman to earn a law degree from your establishment.
Bolin worked along with her family’s practice in her home city to get a time before wedding lawyer Ralph E. Mizelle in 1933 and relocating to New York. As the decade advanced, after campaigning unsuccessfully for a state assembly seat on the Republican ticket, she took on assistant corporate counsel work for Nyc, creating another landmark as the primary African American woman to hold that place.
On July 22, 1939, a 31-year old Bolin was called to appear in the World’s Fair before Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, who—totally unbeknownst to the lawyer—had strategies to declare her in as a judge. So Bolin made history again as the very first African American female judge in America.
Having already been assigned to what would be known as Family Court, Bolin was a sensible, diligent power on the bench, facing a variety of problems on the national front and taking great care when it came to the circumstances of kids. She also altered segregationist policies that were entrenched in the device, including skin color based appointments for probation officers. Also, Bolin worked with first lady Eleanor Roosevelt in supplying support for the Wiltwyck School, a complete, holistic program to help eradicate juvenile offense among lads.
Bolin faced personal challenges, at the same time. Her first husband died in 1943, and she raised their young son, Yorke, for a number of years on her very own. Though she preferred to continue, Bolin was required to retire in the seat in the age of 70, later employed as a consultant and school-based volunteer, along with using the New York State Board of Regents. She died in Long Island City, Queens, Ny, on January 8, 2007, in the age of 98. The cover of the novel comes with a mid-1940s painting of Bolin by Betsey Graves Reyneau, which will be a part of the National Portrait Gallery’s group."
Judge Jane Bolin Biography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkGwnTpUHqg&t=16s
FYI LTC Stephen C. LTC (Join to see) Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Lt Col Charlie Brown Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. "Bill" Price Maj Marty Hogan SCPO Morris Ramsey SFC William Farrell SGT Mark Halmrast Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. SGT Gregory Lawritson CPL Dave Hoover SPC Margaret Higgins SSgt Brian Brakke 1stSgt Eugene Harless SSG William Jones SSG Diane R.
Rest in peace Jane Bolin!
Background from famousbiographies.org/jane-bolin-biography/
"Jane Bolin Biography:
She served on the Family Court bench for four decades, advocating for kids and families via external associations at the same time. Her dad was an attorney who headed the Dutchess County Bar Association and cared for the household after his own wife’s sickness and passing, which happened when Bolin was a kid.
Jane Bolin was a brilliant student who graduated from high school in her mid-teens and went to enrol at Wellesley College. Though facing obvious racism and social isolation, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1928 and was formally acknowledged as among the best students of her class. She then attended Yale Law School, competing with additional societal hostilities, though still graduating in 1931 and thereby becoming the first African American woman to earn a law degree from your establishment.
Bolin worked along with her family’s practice in her home city to get a time before wedding lawyer Ralph E. Mizelle in 1933 and relocating to New York. As the decade advanced, after campaigning unsuccessfully for a state assembly seat on the Republican ticket, she took on assistant corporate counsel work for Nyc, creating another landmark as the primary African American woman to hold that place.
On July 22, 1939, a 31-year old Bolin was called to appear in the World’s Fair before Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, who—totally unbeknownst to the lawyer—had strategies to declare her in as a judge. So Bolin made history again as the very first African American female judge in America.
Having already been assigned to what would be known as Family Court, Bolin was a sensible, diligent power on the bench, facing a variety of problems on the national front and taking great care when it came to the circumstances of kids. She also altered segregationist policies that were entrenched in the device, including skin color based appointments for probation officers. Also, Bolin worked with first lady Eleanor Roosevelt in supplying support for the Wiltwyck School, a complete, holistic program to help eradicate juvenile offense among lads.
Bolin faced personal challenges, at the same time. Her first husband died in 1943, and she raised their young son, Yorke, for a number of years on her very own. Though she preferred to continue, Bolin was required to retire in the seat in the age of 70, later employed as a consultant and school-based volunteer, along with using the New York State Board of Regents. She died in Long Island City, Queens, Ny, on January 8, 2007, in the age of 98. The cover of the novel comes with a mid-1940s painting of Bolin by Betsey Graves Reyneau, which will be a part of the National Portrait Gallery’s group."
Judge Jane Bolin Biography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkGwnTpUHqg&t=16s
FYI LTC Stephen C. LTC (Join to see) Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Lt Col Charlie Brown Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. "Bill" Price Maj Marty Hogan SCPO Morris Ramsey SFC William Farrell SGT Mark Halmrast Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. SGT Gregory Lawritson CPL Dave Hoover SPC Margaret Higgins SSgt Brian Brakke 1stSgt Eugene Harless SSG William Jones SSG Diane R.
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