Massachusetts Superior Court Justice Jennie Loitman Barron, founder and honorary life president of the New England Women’s Division of the American Jewish Congress, was elected here today as American Mother of the Year for 1959. The election was held at the annual meeting of the American Mothers Committee, on the basis of statewide and regional nominations.
Justice Barron served on the Boston Municipal Court for 20 years until last February, when Massachusetts Governor Foster Furcolo named her to the Superior Court bench. She is the first woman justice on the Massachusetts Superior Court.
In private life, Justice Barron is the wife of a Boston attorney, Samuel Barron, Jr. She is 67 and the mother of two daughters, one of whom is an attorney. She has seven grandchildren.
American Mother of the Year receives special nationwide honors each year on Mother’s Day which, this year, is being celebrated next Sunday, May 10.
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