‘Trailblazer’ Rya W. Zobel, First Woman to Serve as Mass. Fed. Judge, Dies at 94

U.S. District Judge Rya W. Zobel, the first woman to serve as a federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, died Saturday at the age of 94 in her home in Charlestown, the district court’s office of the clerk announced.

       

U.S. District Judge Rya W. Zobel, the first woman to serve as a federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, died Saturday at the age of 94 in her home in Charlestown, the district court’s office of the clerk announced.