Reminiscences of Hilda G. Schwartz : oral history, 1984.

Biographical Note

Lawyer, judge

Scope and Contents

Childhood and education in New York, N.Y.; New York University Law School, 1929; marriage; women lawyers; job search; founder, New York Women's Bar Association, 1934; New York Young Democratic Club, chair of Women's Division during 1936 campaign; New York City Board of Estimate, 1946-1951, trial commissioner; City Magistrate, 1951-1958; Treasurer of the City of New York and head of Department of Finance, 1958; appointed Civil Court judge, 1964 and re-elected 1966; typical cases; New York Supreme Court, 1971-1983; women's contribution to judicial process

Subjects

• Courts.
• Democratic Party (U.S.)
• Interviews.
• Judges--Interviews.
• Judicial process.
• Klein, Phyllis Patti, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Municipal government.
• New York (N.Y.)--History--1951-
• New York University. School of Law.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Presidents--United States--Election--1936.
• Schwartz, Hilda G.
• Women judges--Interviews.
• Women lawyers--Interviews.

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Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1985