Tag: Jane M. Bolin

  • Daughter of the Empire State: The Life of Judge Jane Bolin University of Illinois Press December 2011 168 pages 6 x 9 in. 4 black & white photographs Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-03657-6 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-252-09361-6 Jacqueline A. McLeod, Associate Professor of History and African & African American Studies Metropolitan State College of Denver The trailblazing work…

  • Jane Bolin, the Country’s First Black Woman to Become a Judge, Is Dead at 98 The New York Times 2007-01-10 Douglas Martin Jane Bolin, whose appointment as a family court judge by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1939 made her the first black woman in the United States to become a judge, died on…