Totti Cohen
Teofila "Totti" Cohen Parents and Citizens Associations of New South Wales from 1973 to 1980.
Biography
Teofila (
Bachelor of Law in 1956. In that year she married Neville Albert Cohen; they would adopt one son in 1960 before Cohen gave birth to another in 1961. She was the first woman employed as a solicitor at Minter Simpson, before moving to F. W. Jenkins and Co. which she eventually bought after Jenkins's death.[1]
She explored the option of teaching when her sons began attending school and enrolled externally at the
OBE in 1978, she was a parent representative on the Education Commission and vice-president of the Australian Council of School Organisations. She retired in 1980.[1][2]
Following her retirement from the P&C presidency, Cohen served part-time on the Social Security Appeals Tribunal and the Consumer, Trading and Tenancy Tribunal, and was chairwoman of the New South Wales Privacy Committee from 1983 to 1993. Awarded the
AM in 1987, she was also involved in the National Council of Jewish Women and the Jewish Board of Deputies. She died in 2010.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Brown, Malcolm (8 September 2010). "Cohen, Teofila (Totti) (1932-2010)". Obituaries Australia. Australian National University.
- ^ Lofthouse, Andrea (1982). Who's Who of Australian Women. Methuen Australia. p. 113.
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