Caroline Duby Glassman

Caroline Duby Glassman (September 13, 1922 – July 10, 2013) was an American attorney and former jurist in the state of Maine. A native of Oregon, she completed college and law school in that state before moving to Portland, Maine, where she practiced law with her husband Harry P. Glassman. In 1983, she became the first woman to serve on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Early life Caroline Duby was born on September 13, 1926, to Caroline Marie (née Colton) and Charles Ferdinand Duby in the Eastern Oregon city of Baker (now Baker City). Her great-grandmother on her father's side had been part of the Nez Perce tribe of Native Americans, with her father also of French heritage. Duby grew up in Eastern Oregon where she attended the public schools in Baker and neighboring Keating. After high school she enrolled at Eastern Oregon College of Education (now Eastern Oregon University) in La Grande. In 1941, she graduated from the school with honors and an associate degree. Caroline then entered law school at Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Oregon, where she was one of only two women at the school. Both her father and the dean discouraged her from attending the school. She roomed off-campus with her other female classmate after the school consented, but only upon gaining permission from each student's parents. The two boarded together until the other dropped out after two years. Caroline graduated from Willamette summa cum laude in 1944 with a bachelor of laws degree. Legal career After passing the Oregon bar in 1944, she began practicing law in Salem for the Salem Title Insurance Company. She worked there from 1944 until 1946, and then moved to California where she became an associate of Melvin Belli in San Francisco in 1952. In 1953, she married Harry Paul Glassman in San Francisco, and they had a son, Max. She continued working for Belli until 1960 when the family moved to Maine.