Truman's reluctance to appoint her had to do with his belief that having a woman around would make the male judges uncomfortable. "They say they couldn't sit around with their robes off and their feet up and discuss the problems." Truman's reluctance to appoint a woman extended to other venues. When there were more than 20 Federal court vacancies, his original list of nominees was all male; only after some influential women politicians protested, the president named one woman, Burnita Shelton Matthews, to the bench of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 1949. After her retirement, she continued to do speaking engagements and began working on her autobiography. It was called To Do Justly, and was published in the autumn of 1965. Death In declining health after falling and breaking her hip, Allen died on September 12, 1966, in Waite Hill, Ohio, where she had been living with a distant cousin since her retirement. Honor In 2005, Allen was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. See also List of female state supreme court justices List of first women lawyers and judges in the United States List of first women lawyers and judges in Ohio References External links Russ, J. A. 1997. Florence Ellinwood Allen Entry for Florence Ellinwood Allen in the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History Florence Ellinwood Allen Papers. Schlesinger Library , Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University Allen, Florence Ellinwood Papers at the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College. Florence Ellinwood Allen at the National Women's Hall of Fame |- |- 1884 births 1966 deaths 20th-century American judges American women lawyers American lawyers Case Western Reserve University alumni Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Lawyers from Salt Lake City New York University School of Law alumni Ohio lawyers Justices of the Ohio Supreme Court Politicians from Salt Lake City United States court of appeals judges appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt University of Chicago Law School alumni 20th-century American women judges