{"id":36127,"date":"2014-03-26T20:10:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T20:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36127"},"modified":"2014-03-26T20:10:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T20:10:13","slug":"jane-bolin-the-countrys-first-black-woman-to-become-a-judge-is-dead-at-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36127","title":{"rendered":"Jane Bolin, the Country\u2019s First Black Woman to Become a Judge, Is Dead at 98"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jane Bolin, the Country\u2019s First Black Woman to Become a Judge, Is Dead at 98<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2007-01-10<\/p>\n

Douglas Martin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jane Bolin<\/a>, whose appointment as a family court judge by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia<\/a> in 1939 made her the first black woman in the United States to become a judge, died on Monday in Queens<\/a>. She was 98 and lived in Long Island City, Queens<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Her death was announced by her son, Yorke B. Mizelle.<\/p>\n

Judge Bolin 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 work in the office of the New York City corporation counsel<\/a>, the city\u2019s legal department.<\/p>\n

In January 1979, when Judge Bolin had reluctantly retired after 40 years as a judge, Constance Baker Motley<\/a>, a black woman and a federal judge, called her a role model.<\/p>\n

In her speech, Judge Motley said, \u201cWhen I thereafter met you, I then knew how a lady judge should comport herself.\u201d.<\/p>\n

The \u201clady judge\u201d was frequently in the news at the time of her appointment with accounts of her regal bearing, fashionable hats and pearls. But her achievements transcended being a shining example. As a family court judge, she ended the assignment of probation officers on the basis of race and the placement of children in child-care agencies on the basis of ethnic background.<\/p>\n

Jane Matilda Bolin was born on April 11, 1908, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.<\/a> Her father, Gaius C. Bolin, was the son of an American Indian woman and an African-American man. Her mother, the former Matilda Emery, was a white Englishwoman…<\/p>\n

Read the entire obituary here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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