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As a civic leader, Schofield was a part of a number of women’s, civic, political, humanitarian, and world fellowship organizations and movements. She served as a president of
Massachusetts Association of Woman Lawyers, the Professional Women’s Club of Boston, the Business and Professional Women’s
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Emma Fall married
Alebert Schofield on March 25, 1916. Their first son, Parker, was born in February 1917 while they were living in South Africa. Their second son, Albert Schofield, Jr., was born in 1920, the same year they returned to the United States. The family settled in Malden and, for the
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in 1930 simultaneously with
Shulman. Scholfield served as associate justice of 1st District Court of Eastern Middlesex in Malden. She took the bench for the first time on December 20, 1930. In her role as a judge, she became the first woman to swear in a mayor of Malden,
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club of Boston. She organized the Malden Zonta Club and co-organized of the Malden Women’s Civic League. She was also a trustee of Boston
University for more than 25 years. Schofield was also an active member of the Malden High School Alumni Association, the Malden
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and presided over a mock trial on
February 26, 1932. She joined the faculty in 1932 and, in addition to mock court, taught courses in deeds, mortgages and easements, and examination of land titles. She also taught
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from 1953 to 1956. She studied across the United States, Europe, and Africa to write her doctoral dissertation on juvenile delinquency. She received a
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presented her with their "Woman of Achievement" award in 1953. The Malden chapter of
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Republican Club of Massachusetts, and the Women Graduate Club of Boston University.
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Arsenic in the Beans and Other Fantastic Adventures of an Absent-Minded Professor
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awarded her their "Good Citizenship Award" in 1954. In the 1958-1959 edition of
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investigating the wool industry. They returned to the United States in 1920.
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