After the election she stated that she had no further political ambitions but expects to resume her private practice of law at the expiration of her term. She really had not seriously considered becoming a judge until a vacancy occurred last spring. Then the Cleveland Business Women's Club adopted a resolution urging Governor Cox to appoint Miss Allen to fill the place. Miss Allen herself remonstrated with the club members fearing that it might look as if the club were dabbling too much in politics or as if she were at the bottom of the plan herself.

After that initial step practically every woman's organization in Cleveland endorsed Miss Allen for the judge-

MISS ALLEN was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. She attended The College for Women, Western Reserve University in Cleveland. After her graduation she taught Latin, Greek and History in a private school in that city and wrote musical criticism for one of the daily papers. Then she went abroad to study music in Berlin but returned to this country and took up law in New York City, where she received her degree. She has been practicing in Cleveland since, and last year was appointed assistant county prosecutor, the first woman in Ohio to receive such an appointment.

Her work as prosecutor was not concerned with women any more than with men. She has been presenting cases to the grand jury in which men mostly have been involved. She is hoping that there will be no discrimination in the cases which come before her as judge.

Miss Allen was one of the prime movers in the Business Women's Club of Cleveland and was made honorary president because her many duties prevented her from being active president. She is one of the most active members, however, and had charge of the big drive which the club put on to raise funds to purchase their large new clubhouse.

And like all notables, Miss Allen has a hobby. It is walking. She walks to work every day, a matter of six miles, and she starts at six o'clock in order to do it. It is her only real exercise, she says.