Category: Law and Law Enforcement
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Marguerite MacDonald Carpenter
1886-1977 Marguerite MacDonald Carpenter was an early lawyer who was admitted to the Bar in 1928. She was a secretary of the NJ Civil Service Commission in Newark, also teaching night classes in typing and stenography at Central High School. She was active for women’s rights, appearing before the State Constitutional Committee in 1948. She…
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Florence M. Rose
1876-? Florence M. Rose was one of the earliest lawyers in NJ, she was admitted to the bar in 1898, when only three other women had passed the bar, one of whom was Mary Philbrook. In 1902, Florence passed her counselor at law exam. She said she found her work “very fascinating” and would advise…
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Paula Laddey
1880-1966 Paula Laddey was an early woman lawyer in Newark serving from 1913-1950, during some of which she had her own Newark office. She served eight years as the assistant probation officer of Essex County. In 1914, she became attorney and executive secretary of the Legal Aid Society of New Jersey, in Newark, where she…
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Vickie Donaldson
c. 1949 – Vickie Donaldson was a leader of the Black Organization of students during the takeover of Conklin Hall in 1969, and joined the Board of Education at age 23. Later, she became the first woman to be General Counsel of the Newark Board of Education and served as Director of Homeless Services for…
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Kathleen P. Galop
1946-2024 Kathleen Galop was an attorney who was instrumental in preserving Branch Brook Park and founding the Cherry Blossom Festival. She served on the Essex County Parks Advisory Council and later became County Executive Historic Preservation Officer and Acting Director of the Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs. She was president of the New Jersey…
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Rosalind Lubetsky Bressler
1936-2001 Rosalind Bressler was the first woman to be corporation counsel (the chief attorney) for the City of Newark, when she was sworn in, Oct 1984. Previously she’d been assistant corporation counsel from 1975. As assistant corporation counsel she focused on labor and employment issues, and contracts, and also worked with many different departments in…
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Naomi Sylvia Charner Campbell
1925-2017 Naomi Charner was a graduate of South Side High who lived at 712 Bergen St and 140 Somerset St in Newark. In 1947, she attended Upsala College and was a senior and Vice President of the Phi Omega Chi Sorority. She had also founded an interracial organization known as the Four Freedoms Action Committee.…
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Newark Policewomen Class of 1949
Photo from Star Ledger shows women in training, May 1949 [Photo shows Virginia Garber and Catherine Daly]. When policewoman were hired in 1949 they were considered by the newspaper, and presumably by all, to be the first hired “in 30 years” since the 1918 hiring of Margaret Dugan, Justina Eller and Etta Fallon. Some didn’t remember 1918, and…