[2] Margolin's parents, who escaped persecution against Jews in Russia, immigrated to New York City shortly before her birth.

In early 1943, after Margolin had left the TVA and following a Federal Communications Commission investigation into Congressman Eugene Cox (D-GA) for accepting a bribe from radio station WALB, the United States House of Representatives created a special investigative committee, chaired by Cox, to look into the FCC.

She became an expert on the Fair Labor Standards Act and was eventually promoted to Assistant Solicitor in charge of Supreme Court appellate litigation.

[10] In 1963, Hale Boggs recommended to President Lyndon Johnson that Margolin be appointed to the United States Court of Claims.

As then Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz told President Johnson, Margolin was a "top notch" attorney and referenced her excellent record arguing before the Supreme Court.

[1] At the dinner, Warren said that Margolin's work had made federal wage and hour law "meaningful and responsible.

Following her retirement, Margolin served as an arbitrator and occasionally taught at the George Washington University Law Center.