Jane Bolin

Jane Matilda Bolin LL.B (April 11, 1908 – January 8, 2007) was first black woman in the United States to be appointed to a judgeship, was only thirty-one years old when Mayor Fiorello La Guardia chose her, in 1939, for a ten-year term on the Domestic Relations Court of the City of New York. A Wellesley College graduate, Bolin was also the first black woman to receive a law degree from Yale University.

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