[2] Polis is the daughter of a man from New York City who moved to Philadelphia and opened a store there, named "Consolidated Home Furnishings".
[4] Eventually, Polis applied for a boxing judge license and was appointed one by Pennsylvania governor Milton Shapp during the early 1970s.
[5] On February 19, 1973, Polis was given her first assignment as a boxing judge, the important main event between perennial Heavyweight world title contenders Jimmy Young and Earnie Shavers at the Philadelphia Spectrum.
[1] Shavers won this fight by a third round knockout; both he and Young would later lose decisions to Muhammad Ali for the world Heavyweight title (and Shavers would also lose to Larry Holmes for Holmes' WBC world Heavyweight title as well) In 1974, after she had judged 35 fights, she appeared as a contestant on the TV show To Tell the Truth and managed to stump the entire panel.
[1] The bout was stopped one minute and three seconds into the first round; referee Joey Curtis, a WBA investigation later found, had been affected by the then recent tragedy in the fight between Ray Mancini and Duk Koo Kim-after which Kim died-and he prematurely waved the fight over giving Dokes the win by first round knockout.
On October 19, 1984, as part of a program headlined by the undisputed world Middleweight title rematch bout between champion Marvelous Marvin Hagler and challenger Mustafa Hamsho in a doubleheader that was televised by HBO Boxing from the Madison Square Garden in New York, Polis officiated the fight for the WBA's vacant world Junior Middleweight title between Jamaica's Mike McCallum and Ireland's Sean Mannion.
[2] Polis has since moved back to Southampton, Pennsylvania in 2022, and is currently available for speaking engagements promoting her book, The Lady Is A Champ, which can be found on the Amazon.com internet sales website.