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Jane Matilda Bolin
April 11, 1908 – January 8, 2007
“We have to fight every inch of the way and in the face of sometimes insufferable humiliations.” Judge Bolin, speaking on women’s rights in 1958
First African American Judge in the United States, First African American woman to graduate from Yale Law School, to join the NYC Bar Association, to join the NYC Law Dept. Lifelong advocate for children’s rights and education.
Photo 1. Judge Jane Bolin. Photo 2. Daughter of the Empire State: The Life of Judge Jane Bolin, by Jacqueline A. McLeod.
Judge Jane Bolin in 1978 [Photo Credit: John Sotomayor]
More About Jane:
- Jane Bolin, The First Black Woman Judge by Breanna Edwards, February 21, 2020
- Judge Jane Bolin by David L. Goodwin February 21, 2018
- Jane Bolin, the Country’s First Black Woman to Become a Judge, Is Dead at 98, by Douglas Martin, Jan. 10, 2007
- Commemorating the Honorable Jane Bolin ’31 and Honoring Black Women Judges of Past and Present, Yale Law School
- Daughter of the Empire State: The Life of Judge Jane Bolin, July 8, 2016 by Jacqueline A. McLeod on Amazon
- The Wonder Woman Project
- Wikipedia