Sylvia A. Bacon, who rose early in her legal career to become the highest-ranking woman in any U.S. attorney’s office, died at her home in Washington. She was 91.
Judge Bacon received a law degree from Harvard University in 1956, not long after the school admitted its first female law students. She became an assistant U.S. attorney in the District and in 1969 was appointed to oversee the office’s management, administration, legislative affairs and public relations. At the time, The Washington Post reported, no woman held a higher position in any of the country’s 94 U.S. attorney’s offices.
The case ended with a settlement in 1988 in which the university allowed the groups access to campus facilities and university funds but did not “endorse” their activities. Judge Bacon received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in 1953. She also studied at the London School of Economics before graduating from Harvard Law School.
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