Lillian Rock

Background

Lillian D. Rock was born August 6, 1896 in New York City to Joel Rock and the former Ida Libby Gross.

Career

Early years

Following high school she obtained an undergraduate degree before enrolling in Brooklyn Law School, from which she graduated in 1923. The pair remained in practice for over a decade, handling more than 5,000 cases by their own count. Political activism

Rock was active in the National Association of Women Lawyers.

Achievements

• Rock is best remembered as the founder in 1935 of the League for a Woman President and Vice President.

Politics

In 1935 Rock founded a political organization called League for a Woman President and Vice President, with its mission the persuasion of one of the major American political parties to nominate a woman for one or both of these top executive governmental positions by 1940.