Lillian D. Rock (August 6, 1896 – 1974) was an American lawyer and political activist. Rock is best remembered as the founder in 1935 of the League for a Woman President and Vice President.
Lillian D. Rock was born August 6, 1896, in New York City to Joel Rock and the former Ida Libby Gross.[1]
Following high school she obtained an undergraduate degree before enrolling in Brooklyn Law School, from which she graduated in 1923.[1] She passed the New York state bar exam in 1925 and entered practice with her brother Nathaniel as part of the New York City law firm Rock and Rock.[1] The pair remained in practice for over a decade, handling more than 5,000 cases by their own count.[1]
Rock was active in the National Association of Women Lawyers.
In 1935 Rock founded a political organization called League for a Woman President and Vice President, with its mission the persuasion of one of the major American political parties to nominate a woman for one or both of these top executive governmental positions by 1940.[2]