Jeanette Goodman Brill

Jeanette Brill (née Goodman) (June 15, 1888 – March 30, 1964) was a Jewish-American lawyer and magistrate from Brooklyn.

She taught at the Manhattan Preparatory School during the day while attending classes at night to receive a Regent's diploma.

[3] At one point, Brill worked in the law office of former Brooklyn County Court Judge Charles J. McDermott.

[6] In May 1929, Mayor Jimmy Walker appointed Brill City Magistrate to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Louis H. Reynolds.

By then, she served on the bench for a total of twelve years, longer than any woman jurist in New York City at the time.

[12] While on the bench, Brill was a strong supporter of the Adolescent Court in Brooklyn, which was established in 1935 as a social experiment for people between the ages of sixteen and eighteen.

While serving as Magistrate during the day, she spent her nights studying at the New York University School of Education and received a B.S.

[2] Brill was president of the Community Service League from 1920 to 1937 and of the Brooklyn Child Guidance Clinic from 1928 to 1937, vice-president of the National Crime Prevention Bureau, a director of the Federation of Jewish Charities,[13] an organizer of the Brooklyn Women's Bar Association in 1915, president of the Brooklyn Law School Alumni from 1936 to 1937, and a member of the National Council of Jewish Women, the American Bar Association, the New York County Lawyers' Association, Iota Tau, Pi Lambda Theta, the New York State Prison Association, the Women's Press Club, the Women's City Club, and the Med.