Judge Jennie L. Barron of Brookline, Mass, who in 1937 became the first woman to be named a full-time municipal judge in Massachusetts, has been named an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court. Judge Barron thus became the first woman to sit on the state’s Superior Court bench.
Long active in Jewish communal affairs, Judge Barron has distinguished herself in public service on the state, national and international levels. A former assistant attorney general of Massachusetts, she was named by the State Department in 1955 to serve on the U.S. delegation to the first United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime which was held in Geneva.
Mrs. Barron was the first president of the Women’s Division in New England of the American Jewish Congress. The AJC law library at its national headquarters is named in her honor.
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