
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 12, 1994                   TAG: 9401120257
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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1ST WOMAN JUDGE ON STATE BENCH DIES AT AGE 87

Odessa Pittard Bailey-Schachtebeck of Roanoke, the first woman judge in Virginia, died Saturday in Davis, Calif. She was 87.

Bailey-Schachtebeck, who read law on her own to pass the bar exam, worked for 20 years in the U.S. District Attorney's Office before being named judge of Roanoke Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court in 1944.

She served as president of the Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs, the Virginia Council of Juvenile Court Judges and the Virginia Conference of Social Work.

She also spearheaded the first traveling artmobile in the nation and served as the Virginia Women's campaign manager for presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson in the 1950s.

A memorial service for Bailey-Schachtebeck will be held at 2:30 p.m. Monday at First Baptist Church in the Boxley Chapel.

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