Английская Википедия:Cecelia Goetz
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Cecelia Helen Goetz (September 30, 1917Шаблон:SpndJanuary 26, 2004) was an American lawyer and bankruptcy judge who served as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials.
Early life
Goetz graduated from Textile High School in Chelsea, where she was editor-in-chief of the school paper.[1] Goetz earned her law degree from New York University School of Law where she served as editor-in-chief of the New York University Law Review—the first woman named editor-in-chief of a major American law journalШаблон:Sfn—and graduated as salutatorian in 1940.[2]Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn While in law school, she studied abroad at the Sorbonne.[1] As of her graduation in 1940, she lived at 2015 Avenue I in Brooklyn.[3]
Nuremberg
Шаблон:Further After initially being rebuffed, Goetz took a job at the Department of Justice in the equivalent of today's Civil Division.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn She applied to serve as a Nuremberg prosecutor, was rebuffed again at the instance of the Department of War,Шаблон:Sfn but was eventually given a "waiver of disability" by Telford Taylor so she could serve.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The "disability" was her gender.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn She had been offered a supervisor's role at Justice—the first woman to be given such an opportunity—but declined it in favor of work at Nuremberg.[4]
She was first involved in the Flick Trial[5] and then became Associate Counsel on the trial of Alfred Krupp,Шаблон:Sfn delivering the opening statement on December 8, 1947.Шаблон:Sfn She was one of four women on the Nuremberg prosecution team and, as Associate Counsel, she outranked six men.Шаблон:Sfn[6] At the time, she observed that "[t]o get a decision in this case would, in my opinion, be a great step toward avoiding future wars."[1] She would later describe her participation in the trials as "the most important work I have ever been involved in."[6]
Private practice and government
After Nuremberg, Goetz returned to the United States. She worked at her father Isidor Goetz's firm, Goetz & Goetz,[1]Шаблон:Sfn and later became the first woman to serve as Assistant Chief Counsel to the Economic Stabilization Agency.Шаблон:Sfn She was later Special Assistant to the Attorney General in the Tax Division of the Department of Justice.Шаблон:Sfn In 1964, she was admitted to the partnership at Herzfeld & Rubin, a New York law firm.Шаблон:Sfn
Judicial career
Goetz was appointed a United States Bankruptcy Judge in 1978,Шаблон:Sfn becoming the first woman to serve as Bankruptcy Judge in New York's Eastern District.[2] Her chambers were in Happauge, New York.[7] In the early 1990s, Goetz oversaw the bankruptcy proceedings of Braniff International Airways, which had filed under Chapter 11 in August 1991.[7] She served until 1993,[8] returning to Herzfeld & Rubin thereafter.Шаблон:Sfn
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Further reading
- Шаблон:Cite book Chapter 25 provides a detailed account of the Krupp trial and Goetz's role in it.
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