Background
Spivack, Edith Irene was born on April 19, 1910 in New York City. Daughter of Harry A. and Ethel Y. (Mantell) Spivack.
Spivack, Edith Irene was born on April 19, 1910 in New York City. Daughter of Harry A. and Ethel Y. (Mantell) Spivack.
Bachelor, Barnard College, 1929. Bachelor of Laws, Columbia University, 1932. Doctorate (honorary), St. John's University.
Bar: New York 1933, United States.Dist. Court (southern district) New York 1949, United States Court Justices Appeals 1950, 75, Supreme Court of the United States Court 1969, United States District Court (eastern district) Pennsylvania 1973. Association assistant Corporation Counsel" General’ General’ s Office, City of New York, 1934-1976, executive assistant, 1976-1995, executive assistant emeritus, 1995.
Partner Tenzer, Greenblatt, Fallon & Kaplan, New York City.
Member panel to review qualifications for eastern district court bankruptcy judges. Special master appellate division 1st Department, 1991, member commission on character and fitness, 1995.
Active Planned Parenthood, Legal Aid Society. Columbia Law School representative to Alumni Council, also past board directors.
Active Planned Parenthood, Legal Aid Society. Representative to alumni council, past board director Columbia Law School. Fellow: New York Bar Foundation (Community Service award).
Member: Association Bar City New York (courts and member committee, judiciary committee), American Judicature Society, New York County Lawyers Foundation, New York County Lawyers Association (board directors, finance committee, women's rights committee, judiciary committee, member committee on committees, Edith Irene Spivack award Named after her, William Nelson Cromwell award 1976), American Bar Foundation, New York State Bar Association (judiciary committee, delegate, status of women in courts committee, Fifty-year Lawyer award 1984, 60 year dedicated service award), Princeton Club (New York City), Columbia University Law School Alumni Association (medal for excellence committee, Outstanding Woman award in Northern Hempstead).
Married Bernard H. Goldstein, December 22, 1933. Children: Rita Goldstein Christopher, Amy Goldstein Bass.