Fall, Emma L. Schofield

Details
Alias: Emma L. Schofield
Professional Facts
Regions and States of Practice:
MA, Northeast
Legal Education:
Boston University School of Law, 1908
Other Education:
B.A. and LL.M., Boston University
Boston School of Social Workers
University of Paris - Sorbonne
Positions During Her Career:
Part of the faculty at Portia Law School of Boston
Commissioner on the Massachusetts Industrial Accident Board
Assistant attorney general of Massachusetts
Private practitioner
Probation officer in the District Court of Springfield
Counsellor for women at Northeastern Law School
Associate justice of the First District Court of Eastern Middlesex
Firsts:
Female assistant attorney general in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Woman to sit on the bench in New England
Female Commissioner on the Massachusetts Industrial Accident Board
Female probation officer in the District Court of Springfield
Further Research Materials

References:
Laura Miller Derry, Digest of Women Lawyers and Judges. Lousville, Kentucky: Dunne Press (1949)
Laura Berrien in Massachusetts, Equal Rights 7 (January 1, 1939)
Judge Emma Fall Scholfield, Pioneers of the Law, 13 (5) National Business Woman 141 (1934)
Massachusetts Asks Jury Service, 17 (3) Equal Rights
Two "First" Judges, 16 (1) The Woman's Journal (January, 1931)
Woman Appointed in Massachusetts, Equal Rights 63 (April 2, 1927)
Women Lawyers' Club: News Items
"News Items", 2 (4) Women Lawyers' Journal (February, 1913)