Remembering Jane Bolin

Jane Bolin, the nation's first black judge and the first black woman to graduate from Yale School, has died. She was 98. Bolin's family contacted the New York city Bar Association on Thursday for help arranging a memorial, spokesman Matthew Leovory said, Bolin, who died Monday in New York, was shown in by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1939, according to the city's law department. She was assigned to the domestic relations court, later named family court, and fought racial discrimination from the bench. She worked to end segregation in child placement facilities and the assignment of probation officers based on race. She also helped create a racially integrated treatment center for delinquent boys. Bolin reflected on her states as a barrier-breaker in a 1993 interview with The New York Times. She will always be remember down in history.