John J. Driscoll Papers

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John J. Driscoll Papers

1933-1981

https://archivessearch.lib.uconn.edu/repositories/2/resources/350

Many of the Papers of John Driscoll include files from Margaret Connors Driscoll's career. The Papers consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, fliers, notes, publications, administrative records, photographs on topics including labor studies and education, unfair labor practices, worker's compensation, CIO annual convention, unemployment compensation, various companies contract negotiations, disabilities insurance, special sessions of General Assembly, the legislative session, mine and mill damage suits, Associations of Catholic Trade Unionists, farm workers, the Workmen's Compensation Act, the Connecticut Conference on Social and Labor Legislation, Award: John Driscoll elected to represent Waterbury Brass Workers Union No. 251, International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelters Workers Executive Board Minutes 1939, Nonferrous Metals Industry Unionism, 1958 Legislature Unemployment Compensation, Present Economic Trends in Connecticut 1958, United Auto Workers (UAW), Legislation in CIO, Legislative Reports and Bulletins, Margaret Driscoll becomes Connecticut's First Female Judge, Various Court Cases Margaret Driscoll as Attorney,

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University of Connecticut.

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Driscoll, Margaret Connors, 1915?-2000

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Margaret Connors Driscoll was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, likely in 1915, and graduated in 1935 from Wellesley College. She received her law degree from Yale Law School in 1938, one of five women in the class. Judge Driscoll was heavily involved in Democratic politics and labor issues before her appointment as a judge to the Connecticut Juvenile Court in 1960. She served as chief judge -- the first woman to do so -- from 1976 to 1978. She was a judge of the Connecticut Superior Court fr...