Marion Janet Harron

Marion Janet Harron (September 3, 1903 – September 26, 1972) was a United States Tax Court judge from 1936 to 1960, known for having an affair with Lorena Hickok.[1] Hickok was reputed to be involved with Eleanor Roosevelt at the time this affair started and Harron became a frequent visitor at the White House.[2]

Marion Janet Harron
United States Tax Court judge
In office
1936–1960

Harron died of cancer in 1972.

Born 1903, San Francisco, Calif.; attended University of California at Berkeley, A.B., cum laude, 1924, and UC School of Law J .D. (thesis, Dissenting Opinions of Justice Brandeis), 1926; member of Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Sigma Rho; teaching fellow, Department of Economics, University of California, 1924-26; on the staff of the California Industrial Welfare Commission, summers 1924-25; admitted to the bar, California, 1926, United States Supreme Court, 1938; practiced law in San Francisco; member of law faculty, Institute for the Study of Law Johns Hopkins University, 1928-29; author, Research in Law in the United States, Johns Hopkins Press, 1929; counsel to Manufacturers Trust Company, New York City, engaged in legal work concerned with liquidations of banks and real estate syndicates, reorganizations of corporations, and corporate trusts, 1929-33; assistant counsel National Industrial Recovery Administration, Washington, D.C., 1933—35; assistant counsel Resettlement Administration, Washington, D.C., 1935; regional custodian of rehabilitation corporations, Resettlement Administration, Berkeley, Calif., 1936; member, Phi Delta Delta law fraternity, Prytanean Society, San Francisco Bar Association, California Bar Association, National Association of Women Lawyers, American Bar Association; American Assn. of University Women; original appointment to the United States Board of Tax Appeals (now the Tax Court of the United States), July 29, 1936; reappointed to a succeeding term which expired June 1, 1960; recalled to perform further judicial duties June 2, 1960.[3]

References
  1. Roberts, John B. (2004). Rating the First Ladies: The Women Who Influenced the Presidency. Citadel Press. p. 247. ISBN 978-0-8065-2608-9.
  2. Kearns Goodwin, Doris (1994). No ordinary time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the Home Front in World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 339. ISBN 978-0-671-64240-2.
  3. Official Congressional Directory (1961), p. 619.
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