Tag: Jane Matilda Bolin

  • Judge Jane Bolin Historical Society of the New York Courts 2018-02-21 David L. Goodwin, Appellate Public Defender New York, New York Dear Jane, You’re one of the reasons the courts for children are a greater hope than some people say. You’re one of the dedicated ones.1 Born and raised in Poughkeepsie, but with a career…

  • Three decades before these “first” appointments, Judge Jane Bolin (1908-2007) held the honor of being the first African-American female judge in the United States.

  • Justine Jane M. Bolin (First Negro woman judge in the U.S.A.) The Crisis Volume 49, Number 9 (September 1939) THE COVER Miss Jane M. Bolin became on July 22 the first colored woman Judge in the United States when Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia appointed her and swore her in as a justice of the Court of…

  • 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…