Jennie Loitman Barron (1891-1969)

• Judge, lawyer, and suffragist
• president of the Massachusetts Association of Women Lawyers
• campaigned for uniform marriage and divorce laws, as well as for women’s right to serve on juries
• had a thirty-five year career as a judge
• became associate justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court in 1957 — the first woman to hold this position
• remained active in the Jewish community throughout her career
• first president of the Women’s Auxiliary of Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital
• first president of the New England Women’s Division of the American Jewish Congress

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