Caroline Duby Glassman

Caroline Duby Glassman (September 13, 1922 – July 10, 2013) was an American attorney and former jurist in the state of Maine. A native of Oregon, she completed college and law school in that state before moving to Portland, Maine, where she practiced law with her husband Harry P. Glassman. In 1983, she became the first woman to serve on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Early life Caroline Duby was born on September 13, 1922, to Caroline Marie (née Colton) and Charles Ferdinand Duby in the Eastern Oregon city of Baker (now Baker City). Her great-grandmother on her father's side had been part of the Nez Perce tribe of Native Americans, with her father also of French heritage. Duby grew up in Eastern Oregon where she attended the public schools in Baker and neighboring Keating. Caroline then entered law school at Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Oregon, where she was one of only two women at the school.

Legal career After passing the Oregon bar in 1944, she began practicing law in Salem for the Salem Title Insurance Company. Glassman served as the president of the Cumberland Bar Association in 1982 and was on the state bar association's board of governors from 1982 to 1983. She was confirmed by the Maine State Senate on August 4, in a unanimous vote.

While on the bench, she received several honorary degrees, including from the University of New England in 1985, Bowdoin College in 1986, Husson College in 1989, and finally in 1994 from her alma mater, Willamette University College of Law. In early 1997 she announced she would not seek a third term, but hoped her replacement would be another woman.