She was the first woman member of the Bar Association of Baltimore City and chairperson of the Maryland Commission on the Status of Women.
Her father, Adolph C. Rosner, was a businessman who emigrated to the United States in 1890.
[citation needed] In 1920, her family moved again to the Park Circle neighborhood of Baltimore.
During her law training, she worked as a social worker for the Jewish Children's Bureau and took night classes.
She served as secretary for her graduating class of 1924, and subsequently was admitted to the Maryland Bar.