Julia Harrington Duff (November 30, 1859 – 1932) was an American educator and community leader, known as the first Irish-American woman to serve on the Boston School Committee.
Julia Elizabeth Harrington was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the eldest of her parents' seven children.
[6] Her husband made a practice of being present at all the school board meetings to "join in the fight" when she was quarrelling.
"[9] In 1910, she supported a boycott of the Boston opera house to express disapproval for recently divorced Lina Cavalieri.
[10] Julia Harrington married John Duff, a medical doctor educated at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.