Jennie Loitman Barron was the first president of the Boston University College Equal Suffrage Organization. She was invited by Maud Wood Park to speak at open-air meetings of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government. In 1917, she was a street-corner speaker in New York City's suffrage campaign. Once suffrage was granted, Barron worked with the League of Women Voters to address irregular marriage and divorce laws across the country. She wrote the League's official statement arguing for women to serve on juries.
She was elected to the Boston School Committee from 1926 to 1929, the first mother to serve.
She was the first woman to present evidence to a Grand Jury in Massachusetts, and the first to prosecute major criminal cases. She was the first woman judge appointed for life to the Municipal Court in Boston (1937), and the first woman appointed to the Massachusetts Superior Court (1959).
Way to go for the daughter of Jewish Russian immigrant parents.