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Jane Matilda Bolin was born on April 1, 1908, in Poughkeepsie, New York.She had ten siblings. Her father, Gaius C. Bolin, was a lawyer and the first black person to graduate from Williams College, [2] and her mother, Matilda Ingram Emery, [3] was an immigrant from the British Isles who died when Bolin was 8 years old.
Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford (née Parker; c. 1505 – 13 February 1542) was an English noblewoman. Her husband, George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, was the brother of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, and a cousin to King Henry VIII's fifth wife Catherine Howard, making Jane a cousin-in-law.
Jane Bolin was a New York-born lawyer who broke multiple barriers for both women and Black people throughout her career. What did Jane Bolin accomplish?
Jane Bolin was the first Black American woman graduate of Yale Law School and the first Black American woman judge in the United States. After graduating from Yale, Bolin worked with her family's ...
Jane Bolin broke many boundaries in her life, but perhaps her most famous is being named the first Black woman judge in America in 1939. (This is after she was the first Black woman to graduate ...
First African-American woman college instructor: Sarah Jane Woodson Early, Wilberforce College [44] First African-American woman to graduate from a medical course of study at an American university: Sarah Mapps Douglass; First African-American Missionary Bishop of Liberia: Francis Burns of Windham, N.Y. of the Methodist Episcopal Church. [45]
First African American female: Jane Bolin (1932) in 1939 [34] First sisters to simultaneously serve as judges: Cornelia Groefsema Kennedy (1947) and Margaret G. Schaeffer (1948) [35] First African American female (elected judge): Geraldine Bledsoe Ford in 1966 [36] First Hispanic American female (county court judge): Dorothy Comstock Riley in ...
Jane Bolin (1908–2007), first black woman to serve as a judge in the United States when she was sworn into the bench of the New York City Domestic Relations Court in 1939. [185] Sonam Dolma Brauen (born 1953), Swiss-Tibetan sculptor and painter [186]