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HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES
Kate Jones Named Edith W. Fine Public Interest Fellow
Kate Jones, Law School Class of 1999, has received
the Edith W. Fine Public Interest Fellowship, named for the late associate
justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court.
Jones is seeking work as a public defender or in a public policy job related
to criminal justice. She was a leader of public interest activities on campus,
serving as co-chair of the Student Public Interest Auction, as co-chair
of both Student Funded Fellowships and the Student Public Interest Network,
as a member of the Executive Board of the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties
Law Review, and as a co-founder of the Summer Associate Initiative for
Legal Services Lunch Project this year.
The annual Fine Fellowship supports the work of a Harvard Law School graduate
who has demonstrated extraordinary leadership and commitment to public service
work, especially in the areas of civil or criminal legal assistance to the
poor, women's reproductive rights, and anti-discrimination work.
Friends, family, and colleagues of Judge Fine established the fellowship
in 1996 to honor Fine's distinguished public service career and her pioneering
role as one of the earliest women graduates of Harvard Law School. Fine,
a member of the Class of 1957, died of cancer in 1995 at the age of 64.
Fine was one of five women in the Class of '57, the fifth graduating class
at the School to include women. Her diverse career included Peace Corps
service as an administrator in Lima, Peru, work with the Office of Economic
Opportunity in Washington, D.C., and time as assistant corporation counsel
for the city of Boston. She taught law at Yale University and the University
of Puerto Rico. In 1973 Fine became presiding justice of the Brookline Municipal
Court, moved to the Massachusetts Superior Court in 1982, and to the state
appeals court in 1984.
Copyright
1999 President and Fellows of Harvard College
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