Republican Women Who Made History

Republican Jane Bolin was born this day in Poughkeepsie, New York.  She was the first African-American woman to graduate from Yale Law School.  In 1939 New York City Mayor LaGuardia appointed her to the NYC Domestic Relations Court making her the country’s first African-American female judge.

 

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