Ethel E. Mackiernan

Ethel E. Mackiernan was the first woman appointed to a presiding judgeship in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.[1][2][3]

Mackiernan attended Portia Law School.[4][3]

Mackiernan began her legal career in Boston in 1918 and became attorney for the Nantucket Institution for Savings.[1] She was the first woman to be appointed to a full-time judgeship. In 1935, she was appointed by Governor Joseph B. Ely as a judge in the Nantucket District Court.[1][4] In this position she became the first presiding judge of any court in Massachusetts.[3]

Mackiernan was an incorporator of the Norfolk Varnish Co.[5] and assistant treasurer of the Jamaica Plain Cooperative Bank.[6] She lived at 240 Babcock Street in Brookline, Massachusetts.[7] She was a member of the Appalachian Mountain Club.[7]

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