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Show WOMAN CLIMBS TO HIGH BENCH New Associate Judge of Ohio Supreme Court Has Busy Career i CLEVELAND. O, Nov 11. Ncw-paper Ncw-paper woman teacher, investigator of Immigration conditions, lawyer, aH-it-ant county prosecutor, aud judg of common pleai court are tho steps which have led Florence E. Allen to an associate judgeship on the Ohio siiprsmo court, ns far as records abow. the only woman in the world who will hold hoc h a position. Complete unofficial returns, tabulated tabu-lated by The Associated Pri". ihOW that Miss Allen han. been elected to tho supreme bench by a plurality of 24.S6S over her nearest opponent. PRACTICES EIGHT YEARS Mini M!n hns only been praetlelnK !law in Ohio for the last elht y ais. ins: admitted to the bar in 1914. She I was graduated from Western Reserve lunlvereity In 1904. From 1906 to i 1 909. she wa.s on the editorial staff of I tho Cleveland Plain Dealer, writing , musical criticisms at night and teaching teach-ing during the day. She took a master's degree In poll-tlcal poll-tlcal sclenco and constitutional law a' v1 tern I aaerve in lSug, then entered iChlcasjo university law school. whTe Isho bpent two year. In 1310 jn-J 1911 she was legal in-, in-, J estlrator for the New York League for the Protection of Iromtgiants and ishe waa graduated from New York university law school In 1918 While a student t the law .school, ahe lec-tured lec-tured for the New York board of education edu-cation and for women's cluba on cur-irnt cur-irnt political hlatorv. FIRST IN MANY THINC.S. Her career has been a succession of j I firsts" She was the fi"st woman eer to be appointed an assistant prosecuting attorney in Cuyahoc icounty. and when elected to the common com-mon pleas bunch two years ano. ." Ithe first woman to sit in a court of general jurisdiction in tho country. Her election to the supreme court, ishe, h.i declared in an Interview. Is a j Indication of her i ontentlon that the judiciary should be kept out of politics. poli-tics. Sh would take office, she asserted, as-serted, 'with no other obligation than' Ithose I owe to tho people I am to represent rep-resent " |