Julia K. Jaffray

Julia Kippen Jaffray (May 21, 1878 – May 22, 1941) was a Canadian-born American social worker and clubwoman who was a national leader in prison reform and consumer rights.

[2][3] Jaffray was stenographer to suffragist and clubwoman Helen Varick Boswell as a young woman.

[5][6][7] In the 1920s she served on the advisory board of the Federal Industrial Institution for Women in Alderson, West Virginia.

[17] During the 1930s, Jaffray chaired the economic adjustments division of the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs.

[19][20][21] She worked for consumer protections, including food safety and standards for cotton goods, as chair of the public welfare department of the General Federation of Women's Clubs in Washington, D.C.[22][23][24] In 1933, Jaffray taught at a new summer program at the New York Training School for Girls, designed to give women college students interested in prison reform experience working directly with girls in the juvenile justice system.