Marion Janet Harron

Marion Janet Harron (September 3, 1903 – September 26, 1972) was an American lawyer and United States Tax Court judge from 1936 to 1970. She is also known for her five-year affair with Lorena Hickok. Harron was a frequent visitor at the White House during the 1940s. Early life and education Harron was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of George Olcott Brown, a jeweler, and Mary Jane (Minnie) Little Brown. Her parents divorced in 1904. Her stepfather Howard Harron was a lawyer; the Harrons divorced in 1916. She graduated from Girls High School in San Francisco in 1920. She earned a bachelor's degree at the University of California in 1924, and completed a law degree at Berkeley's Boalt Hall in 1926, with a thesis on the opinions of Louis Brandeis. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Sigma Rho. Career During law school in the 1920s, Harron was a teaching fellow in the economics department at the University of California, and was on the staff of the California Industrial Welfare Commission. She passed the California bar in 1926. She joined the Law Research Institute at Johns Hopkins University in 1928, and co-edited the institute's Current research in law for the academic year 1928-1929 with legal scholar Herman Oliphant.