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June 17, 1999
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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.

 


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