Los Angeles County
Biographies
IRENE BROOKS
Irene Brooks, a young
woman of twenty-three years, is not only successfully engaged in the practice
of law but is also a professor of law in Los Angeles. A native of Hungary, she was born July 28,
1912, and is a daughter of Joseph and Grace Brooks. She received her professional training at the
Pacific Coast University College of Law in Los Angeles, from which she was
graduated with the degree of Juris Doctor in 1932, and in the same year she had
the distinction being the youngest lawyer to be admitted to the California
bar. She has since maintained offices in
the H. W. Hellman building in Los Angeles and aside from her law practice,
which has already assumed gratifying proportions, she is a member of the teach
staff of the Pacific Coast University College of Law. Actively interested in public affairs, she is
exerting her influence to bring about the establishment of an adequate
transportation system for the people of Los Angeles. She is a member of the National Association of
Women Lawyers, also belongs to Iota Tau Tau, a legal sorority, and likewise has
membership connection with the California Women’s Safety League and the Central
Voters Council.
On the 28th of May, 1935,
in Los Angeles, California, Irene Brooks became the wife of Dr. B. B. Crombie,
a native of England and a professor of physiotherapy and X-ray.
Transcribed by
Mary Ellen Frazier.
Source:
California of the South Vol. V, by John Steven McGroarty,
Page 807, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2013 Mary Ellen Frazier.
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