Bosone, Reva Beck Cutler
1895 - 1983

Details
AliasES: Reva Beck, Reva Cutler
Born: 4/2/1895 in American Fork, Utah
Died: 7/21/1983
Ethnicity: White/Caucasian
Professional Facts
Practice Area:
Educational Law & Le
International Law
Juvenile Law
Labor Law
Profession:
General practice
Constitutional law
Labor law
International law
Education law
Criminal law
Police and Traffic Court
Regions and States of Practice:
DC, South
UT, West
Legal Education:
University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, 1930
Other Education:
Westminster Junior College in Salt Lake City (1917)
B.A., University of California at Berkeley (1919)
Positions During Her Career:
Taught high school in American Fork, Delta, and Ogden, Utah (1920-1927)
Began the law firm Bosone & Bosone with her husband in Helper, Utah (1930)
Elected to the Utah State House of Representatives from Carbon County (1932-1935)
Served on the Sifting Committee (Rules Committee) (1934)
Chair of the Sifting Committee (1934)
Democratic Floor Leader (1934)
Three 4-year terms as Municipal judge (1936-1948)
Director of the Utah State Board for Education and Alcoholism (1947-1948)
Elected to the United States House of Representatives by the State of Utah (1948)
Served on the House Interior Committee (1948)
Elected to Utah State House of Representatives
Officer of the Housewives’ Council of Salt Lake City
Officer of the Consumers’ Welfare League of Utah
Municipal judge
Chairman of the Civilian Advisory Women’s Army Corps. Committee of the Ninth Service Command
Served on the Salt Lake County Welfare Commission
Hosted a 15 minute weekly radio program on Salt Lake’s local NBC affiliate entitled “Her Honor – the Judge.”
Member of the President’s Highway Safety Conference
Director of the Utah State Board for Education and Alcoholism
Principal Speaker at the general session of the National Safety Conference
Taught a refresher course for veterans at the University of Utah Law School
Appeared twice on “America’s Town Meeting of the Air,” a national radio program, speaking on international law and alcoholism
Served as a member of the House Select Committee on Current Pornographic Materials
Delegate to Democratic National Convention
Hosted Salt Lake City television program “It’s a Woman’s World” on local NBC affiliate
Served as Legal Counsel for the Subcommittee of Safety and Compensation of the House Committee on Education and Labor
Judicial officer and chairman of the Contract Board of Appeals for the U.S. Post Office Department
Firsts:
Woman to serve on the Sifting Committee (Rules Committee) of the Utah State House of Representatives for Salt Lake County (1934)
Woman chair of the Sifting Committee (1934)
Woman Democratic Floor Leader (1934)
Woman majority party floor leader in the Utah State House of Representatives
Woman judge in Utah(1936)
Director of the Utah State Board for Education and Alcoholism (1947-1948)
Woman elected to the United States House of Representatives by the State of Utah (1948)
Woman to serve on the House Interior Committee (1948)
“Outsider” to address the Puerto Rican Constitutional Convention
Woman Chief Judicial Officer and Chairman of the Contract Board of Appeals for the United States Post Office
Recipient of the Susa Young Gates Award (1973)
Accomplishments:
Elected to the Utah Hall of Fame (1943)
Her program, "It's a Women's World", won the Zenith Television award (1953)
Received the first annual Susa Young Gates Award (1973)
Further Research Materials

References:
A Century of Achievement: The Centennial of the National Association of Women Lawyers
Selma Moidel Smith: A Century of Achievement: The Centennial of the National Association of Women Lawyers, 85 Women Lawyers Journal 2 (Summer 1999) *Originally printed as two articles: "...The First 50 Years," 9 Experience 1 (Fall 1998), and "...The Second 50 Years," 9 Experience 2 (Winter 1999)
Laura Miller Derry, Digest of Women Lawyers and Judges. Lousville, Kentucky: Dunne Press (1949)

Student Papers:
Do Right and Fear Not: The Story of Reva Beck Bosone, Utah's First Woman Judge and Member of Congress
Tuft, Leslie
Potential Paper Topics:
Research into her involvement with New Deal reform legislation. Research into her two years in the Utah State Legislature, where she organized the Progressive Bloc, 16 House members who met in secret to discuss issues, and voted as a unit. Bosone sponsored New Deal reform legislation, playing an important role in passing a minimum wage and hour law for women and children, which she considered her most important work in the Utah legislature, and a Utah child labor constitutional amendment.
An analysis of her work concerning alcoholism. Bosone held the unpopular view that alcoholism was an illness, and she pushed for a government-sponsored “drunk farm” where drinkers who committed criminal offenses could get treatment.
An analysis of her work involving traffic laws. Bosone instituted extraordinary and unpopular traffic fines to improve Salt Lake’s notoriously dangerous roads.
An analysis of Bosone's proposed bill, which tried to encourage Native American self-government by reducing federal administration of Indian affairs.
Research into the Subversive Activities and Control and Communist Registration Act and the 1949 Central Intelligence Agency Act, two bills that Bosone voted against
An analysis of Bosone's work in the US Congress.