02/04/2022
Today we honor Judge Jane Matilda Bolin. She helped make the impossible a reality for Black women.
Born and raised in Today we honor Judge Jane Matilda Bolin.ve boroughs of New York City, Jane Matilda Bolin (1908–2007) is best known for a particular “first” of groundbreaking magnitude. She holds the honor of being the first African-American judge in the entire United States, joining the bench of New York City’s Domestic Relations Court in 1939. Her appointment by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, which came as some surprise to Bolin herself when she was summoned with her husband to an audience with the mayor at the 1939 World’s Fair, she was not aware of the mayor’s intentions in advance. This made “news around the world.”
Judge Bolin served with distinction, reappointed to the bench by three different mayors — O’Dwyer in 1949 (although not without some politicking), Wagner in 1959, and Lindsay in 1969 — while weathering the reorganization of the Domestic Relations Court into the Family Court in 1962.[8] She retired in 1979, but only reluctantly; in an interview conducted when Judge Bolin was in her early 80s, she made clear that, were it up to her, she would still be serving on the Family Court.
Judgeship was not Jane Bolin’s only first, or even her first of comparable magnitude. Among her tally, she was the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School, to join the New York City Bar, and to work in the office of the City’s Corporation Counsel.
Bolin also worked as a legal advisor for the National Council of Negro Women.
(Source: https://history.nycourts.gov/judge-jane-bolin/)
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