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Show WOMEN All SIT ON BENCH One Feminine Judge for Every State Supreme jjj j ji Court Predicted By NEA Service CLEVELAND. Ohio Nov $. "j am 1ut the forerunner of what Is bound to com? In every state a woman member of the supreme court. With women comprising more thnn half tin-population, tin-population, It 1 high time they were taking action to have legislation affecting af-fecting I h'in reviewed from a woman's viewpoint." Thus does Florence E. Allen, who may be the first woman to he elected to a state supreme court. summarize Miss Allen Is a candidate for a seat on the Ohio supremo court bench. Miss Alien did not make her i ena-pulgn ena-pulgn on a platform advocating ti woman for supreme judge; she ran as a non-partisan on her record rj a judge or the Common Pleas court hi re. Her record for quick handl.ng ii usee, us-ee, sympathetic Interest In litigation before hcr( end low proportion ot re-vereeje, re-vereeje, won her not only women'a support, but following of both Dem- oerats and 1 1 publicans. First woman to be a Common Picas court judge. Miss Allen also was the flrbt woman judge to try a murder case. She has tried a half dozen In the last two years, in only one was her procedure reversed and that tor an action of the sheriff. WINS FIG HI FOR MI Quiet of manner, low of voice. Miss Allen has made the law rier calling since she was admitted to the l.ir in liUO. Her experience In that time has covered a wide variety of enaea She is credited with winning the tight of the East Cleveland women for the ote In 1910, a fight that went through , tho East Cleveland charter commission commis-sion hearings and up to the supreme j court. She represented th. union Btreet railway employes of Cleveland ' ns arbitrator in the 1 3 1 S wage dispute. dis-pute. As the first woman to appear before the National iubor Board Judge As-len As-len represented the women street ;.r conductors. She Is credited with making mak-ing the best presentation of -a case ever given before the board In 1919, Miss Allen was chosen assistant as-sistant county prosecutor here, A year later, she was elected Judge Of the Common Pleas court by the i -est vote ever given here for any candidate can-didate for that office. Thereby she became the first woman ever to ait aa a Judge In a court of general leil l-tlon, l-tlon, and has since worked In law. equity, civil and criminal cases. WANTS WOMEN .11 DGES "There is no reason why a woman who has mado a thorough study of tho law should net I" qualified to become be-come a trial Judge." says Mlaa Allen. "There Is every reason, too, why a woman should be a member of the supremo su-premo court of each si i "Through its decisions to establish constitutionality of new laws, euprcme court assumea a quasl-Iegis-latlve function. As a result of a ned women's oTganizatlona and women wo-men legislators, many new laws are being made affecting women It la certainly fitting that a woman's viewpoint view-point should be included in the d liberations lib-erations on these and othr la . fecttng women and children when they are up lor test of their eon n ationality." a-tionality." nn |