Born April 12 in Oregon to Rabbi Stephen Wise and Louise Waterman Wise; family moves to New York two years later

Begins college at Bryn Mawr, transfers to Radcliffe, graduates from Barnard

Works at Elizabeth Peabody Settlement house while attending Radcliffe

Works in textile mills in Passaic, New Jersey

Studies labor relations at International Labor Office in Geneva

Attends Yale Law School, editor of Yale Law Journal

Marries Lee Tulin, together they have one son, Stephen

Participates in Passaic mill workers' strike

Becomes first woman referee in Workmen's Compensation Division

Husband, Lee Tulin, dies of leukemia

Prepares Study for the Governors Commission on Medical Costs of Compensation

Becomes Assistant Corporation Council for Workmen's Compensation Division;

Serves as Counsel and Secretary to Committee on Unemployment Relief, prepares its highly critical report

Appointed Justice of Domestic Relations Court

First woman judge above magistrate in the state

Marries Shad Polier, together they have two children, Trudy and Jonathan

Leave of absence from court to serve as Special Council to Eleanor Roosevelt, Office of Civilian Defense

Establishes the Wiltwyck School for Boys as non-sectarian and interracial

Publishes Everybody's Child, Nobody's Child

Becomes chairman of Louise Wise Services

In the matter of Skipwith, a case dealing with de facto segregation in schools

Helps initiate and assists in class action suit Wilder v. Sugarman (1974)

Retires from Court;

Director of Juvenile Justice Project of the Children's Defense Fund

Dies on July 31 in New York City

Juvenile Justice in Double Jeopardy published posthumously