Mary Heftel Hooton papers

  • Creator Names Hooton, Mary Heftel, 1919-1993.
  • Title Mary Heftel Hooton papers [manuscript], 1938-1991.
  • Physical description 8 linear ft. (16 boxes)
  • Access and usage restrictions For listening purposes, it is necessary to use a copy, not the original (and to have a listening copy made if one is not available).
  • Collection summary Correspondence and other papers of Mary Heftel Hooton, a Chicago lawyer and Cook County Circuit Court judge. Includes materials about Hooton's judicial elections (1976-1988); materials from organizations (the Joint Committee on the Women's Court and Detention Home, Chicago; the Citizens Committee for Children and Parents Under Stress; the Citizens Committee for Battered Children; and the Juvenile Delinquent Committee of the Chicago Bar Association) and state agencies interested in juvenile delinquency issues; materials connected with Hooton's admission to the bar in 1943; personal letters to Hooton from her first two husbands, one of whom (Edward Kingsley) served with the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II; and miscellaneous materials from her third husband, William Heftel, a Chicago lawyer. Several cassette tapes are present in boxes 10 and 11.
  • Acquisition information Gift of the Women's Bar Association of Illinois in 1993 (1994.0139).
  • Location of Other Archival Materials Note Related materials at Chicago History Museum, Research Center, include the Mary Heftel Hooton collection of visual materials (1994.0139.24).
  • Names
    • Hooton, Mary Heftel, 1919-1993 Archives.
    • Heftel, William, 1918-1988.
    • Hooton, James.
    • Kingsley, Edward H.
    • Chicago Bar Association.
    • Citizens Committee for Battered Children.
    • Citizens Committee for Children and Parents Under Stress.
    • Illinois. Circuit Court (Cook County)
    • Joint Committee on the Women's Court and Detention Home, Chicago.
    • Heftel, William, 1918-1988.
    • Hooton, James.
    • Kingsley, Edward H.
    • Chicago Bar Association.
    • Citizens Committee for Battered Children.
    • Citizens Committee for Children and Parents Under Stress.
    • Joint Committee on the Women's Court and Detention Home, Chicago.
  • Subjects
    • Juvenile delinquency Illinois Chicago 20th century.
    • Juvenile delinquency Illinois 20th century.
    • Judges Illinois Cook County 20th century.
    • Women lawyers Illinois Chicago 20th century.
    • World War, 1939-1945.
  • Geographic coverage
    • Chicago (Ill.) Politics and government 20th century.
    • Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions 20th century.
  • Genre
    • Audiocassettes. aat
    • Correspondence. aat
    • Scrapbooks. aat
  • Geographic name United States Illinois Cook County Chicago.