Edith Fisch

'''Edith L. Fisch''' (March 3, 1923 – August 3, 2006)<ref name="nyt">{{citation|title=Paid Notice: Deaths, FISCH, EDITH L.|journal=The New York Times|date=August 6, 2006|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B04E1DE163AF935A3575BC0A9609C8B63}}.</ref> was an American jurist and legal scholar.

Fisch was born in New York City and grew up in Brooklyn.<ref name="jwa"/> She was disabled by poliomyelitis at age 12 and lived the rest of her life in a wheelchair.<ref name="jwa"/> She attended Brooklyn College for undergraduate studies, graduating with a B.S. in chemistry in 1945.<ref name="jwa"/> When she earned three law degrees from Columbia Law School in 1948, 1949, and 1950, she became the first woman to earn a J.S.D. at Columbia and the first student there to earn all three law degrees.<ref name="cu"/> The professors at Columbia discouraged her from going on to teach law despite her ambition to do so, but she taught at the New York Law School from 1962 to 1965, becoming the first female law professor in New York State.<ref name="nyt"/><ref name="jwa">{{citation|url=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/fisch-edith|contribution=EDITH FISCH b. 1923|first=Dorothy|last=Thomas|title=Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia|editor1-first=Paula|editor1-last=Hyman|editor2-first=Dalia|editor2-last=Ofer|publisher=Jewish Women's Archive|date=March 1, 2009}}.</ref><ref name="cu">{{citation|url=http://www.law.columbia.edu/alumni/highlights/articles/oralhistory/bios#76160|contribution=Edith L. Fisch|title=Columbia Law School: Biographies of Participants|accessdate=2010-05-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160722103401/http://www.law.columbia.edu/alumni/highlights/articles/oralhistory/bios#76160|archive-date=2016-07-22|url-status=dead}}.</ref><ref> {{Citation | last = Fuchs Epstein | first = Cynthia | title = Women In Law | publisher = University of Illinois Press | year = 1993 | page = 226 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9Y_vDwxyLQwC&q=%22Edith+Fisch%22&pg=PA226 | isbn = 0-252-06205-1}} </ref> She is the author or co-author of the law textbooks ''The Cy Pres Doctrine in the U.S.'' (1951), ''Fisch on New York Evidence'' (1959), and ''Charities and Charitable Foundations'' (1974), and was president of the New York Women's Bar Association from 1970 to 1971.<ref name="jwa"/>

==See also== *Ada Kepley, the first woman to graduate law school

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