Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Pauline Herd, 102, Pioneered Law Careers For Women
by Francesca Norsen (firstestate@brooklyneagle.net)
“Pauline Hoffman Herd, a longtime Brooklyn Heights resident, died peacefully at home last Friday, June 13.”
“…A graduate of Stanford, she received her law degree from USC Law School in 1929. She was one of two female students at her university to do so and was the first woman to be sworn into the California Bar.”