CUA Columbus School of Law

The Honorable Kathryn J. DuFour

1910-2005

It is with deep sadness that we write to inform our CUA and law school community of the recent death of The Honorable Kathryn J. DuFour. Judge DuFour, a member of the Law School Board of Visitors, passed away at her home in Gulfstream, Florida last week on Friday, February 4^th, at the age of 94.

Although not an alumna, Judge DuFour has been a special friend and benefactress of our law school for decades. Indeed, the DuFour family has been deeply generous to The Catholic University of America as a whole, and today’s campus is dotted with buildings named in their honor.

Judge DuFour was elected to the Montgomery County Council in 1950. Three years later, then-governor Theodore McKeldin appointed her to the state legislature as a member of the House Judiciary Committee. In 1955, Judge DuFour made history when Gov. McKeldin appointed her to the Maryland Sixth Judicial Circuit Court. She was the first woman in Maryland and in America to hold such a high judicial post. (Years later, when Judge DuFour sent a telegram congratulating Sandra Day O’Connor on her appointment to the Supreme Court, the new Justice responded that for female jurists, Judge DuFour had “paved the way, all the way from Maryland.”)

In 1971, she married Raymond DuFour, a CUA law school graduate (Class of 1936) and simultaneously retired from the bench. Among many other honors, she received the CUA Cardinal Gibbons Medal in 1999 and was both an Appointed Lady of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and an Appointed Dame of the Sovereign of Malta.

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	*The Honorable Kathryn J. DuFour* *1910-2005* It is with deep sadness that we write to inform our CUA and law school community of the recent death of The Honorable Kathryn J. DuFour. Judge DuFour, a member of the Law School Board of Visitors, passed away at her home in Gulfstream, Florida last week on Friday, February 4^th, at the age of 94. Although not an alumna, Judge DuFour has been a special friend and benefactress of our law school for decades. Indeed, the DuFour family has been deeply generous to The Catholic University of America as a whole, and today’s campus is dotted with buildings named in their honor. Judge DuFour was elected to the Montgomery County Council in 1950. Three years later, then-governor Theodore McKeldin appointed her to the state legislature as a member of the House Judiciary Committee. In 1955, Judge DuFour made history when Gov. McKeldin appointed her to the Maryland Sixth Judicial Circuit Court. She was the first woman in Maryland and in America to hold such a high judicial post. (Years later, when Judge DuFour sent a telegram congratulating Sandra Day O’Connor on her appointment to the Supreme Court, the new Justice responded that for female jurists, Judge DuFour had “paved the way, all the way from Maryland.”) In 1971, she married Raymond DuFour, a CUA law school graduate (Class of 1936) and simultaneously retired from the bench. Among many other honors, she received the CUA Cardinal Gibbons Medal in 1999 and was both an Appointed Lady of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and an Appointed Dame of the Sovereign of Malta.
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