Geffen, Irene Antoinette

GEFFEN, Irene Antoinette. M.A., LL.B. Advocate. Born Cape Town 21st January, 1897, daughter of Abel and Johanna Augusta Newmark. Educated at Good Hope Seminary and South African College, Cape Town, and London University. Formerly Senior Lecturer in Logic and Psychology at University of Cape Town; Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Education at University of Witwatersrand; first woman advocate to be admitted to the Bar in South Africa (June, 1923); first woman to be appointed member of the Prison Visitors' Board; I.S.C. member for Laws for National Council of Women; first Vice-President of the Students' Jewish Association on its formation at the South African College in 1913; sometime Vice-President of the Union of Jewish Women of S.A. Author of "Laws of South Africa Affecting Women and Children"; "Children and Domestic Relations Courts in the United States of America and the Union of South Africa." Served on staff of "Cape Argus." Appointed Carnegie Visitor to the United States and Canada, 1933; Gold Medallist in Literature at the South African College (now University of Cape Town), 1915. Married Max Geffen 30th June, 1921; two daughters. Add.: 304, Sevenoaks, Third Street, Killarney, P.O. Box 6850, Johannesburg.