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Jane Bolin, 1st Black Woman to Graduate from Yale Law.

Jane Bolin, 1942
Jane Bolin, 1942

Jane Bolin was the first Black woman to graduate fronm an Ivy League Law School (Yale ). She was also the first Black woman to be sworn in as a judge in the U.S. She served as a judge in New York. She was sworn in at the age of 31 in 1939. She erved om the bench for 40 years.

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