found: Jewish Women's Archive, via WWW, September 19, 2013(Anna Moscowitz Kross 1891-1979; lawyer, judge, public official and advocate for women and the poor; born in Neshves, Russia on July 17, 1891; she was brought to New York City at age two by her immigrant parents, Maier and Esther (Drazen) Moscowitz; received her LL.B (Bachelor of Laws) degree in 1910 from New York University's law school; in 1911 she received an LL. M., but could not take the bar examination until 1912, when she reached the age of twenty-one; she married Dr. Isidor Kross, a noted surgeon, on April 15, 1917; in 1918, after serving as head of the women's division of Tammany Hall's speakers' bureau, she won a political appointment as assistant corporation counsel for the City of New York; the first female to hold such a position, she served the city as a prosecutor until her resignation in 1923; she then developed a legal practice specializing in workers' compensation cases for building union members; appointed a judge in the city court on December 31, 1933, Kross was only the second woman to hold such a post in New York; in 1946, she initiated, and then presided over, the Home Term Court, a special court section that heard domestic cases, such as spousal battery, desertion, and children's issues; in 1954 Kross was appointed commissioner of corrections for New York City; she served with the corrections department until her retirement in 1966 at age seventy-five; she died on August 27, 1979, aged eighty-eight, at a hospital in the Bronx)
