Bolin, Jane M. (Jane Matilda), 1908-2007

found: Jane Bolin photograph collection, 1923?-1978:(Jane Bolin, Jane M. Bolin, Mrs. Ralph E. Mizzelle)

found: WW in colored Amer., 7th ed., 1950:p. 38 (Bolin, Jane Matilda; b. Apr. 11, 1908, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; judge, justice on Domestic Relations Court, New York City, 1939- )

found: Jane Matilda Bolin papers, 1943-1993:(Jane M. Bolin, Jane Bolin, Jane Matilda Bolin, Mrs. Walter P. Offutt, Jr.; first black woman judge in United States when appointed to Domestic Relations Court of New York City in 1939, later renamed the New York State Family Court in 1962; retired on Jan. 1, 1979)

found: New York times WWW site, Jan. 10, 2007(Jane Bolin; b. Jane Matilda Bolin, Apr. 11, 1908, Poughkeepsie. N.Y.; d. Monday [Jan. 8, 2007], Queens, aged 98; her 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)

found: Black Women in America, second edition, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Bolin, Jane Matilda; jurist/ judge; born 11 April 1908 in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States; the first black woman judge in U.S. history; the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School and the first black woman admitted to membership in the New York City Bar association; awarded honorary degrees from Western College for Women and received the Corporation Counsel's Distinguished Service Award; the first black assistant corporation counsel in New York City's Office of the Corporation Counsel (1937); La Guardia selected her to become the new judge in the Domestic Relations Court (1939); defender of the civil rights and civil liberties of children; served on the board of the New York Urban League; member of the New York County Lawyers' Association; died 08 January 2007 in Queens, New York, United States)