User:Erp/Sandbox Edith Atkinson

Edith Meserve Atkinson (?1891-1983) was the first female judge in Dade County, Florida serving on the juvenile court for two terms from 1924 until 1933 but was defeated in 1933. She also founded the Girl Scouts in Miami and helped organize the Greater Miami Boys Club Foundation. Her husband was Henry Atkinson a county court judge. Born in Maine.

Associated with the Phi Delta Delta legal fraternity for women.

Left money to the Dade Community Foundation

Girl Scout Scholarship

Graduated from Stetson University College of Law in 1922 (left them $100,000 for scholarships)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4BdcjFPkOM

http://justice.law.stetson.edu/HallofFame/2004_inductees.asp

http://justice.law.stetson.edu/TheLawyer/pdfs/44-2.pdf

Obit Miami Herald, The (FL) - Tuesday, August 16, 1983