Hurney began work as a stenographer in the Justice Departments Lands Division. She studied at night at the American University Law School. and was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1939. She became a staff assistant in the Criminal Division of the Justice Department. and transferred. in 1941. to the Immigration Service as an associate legal counsel. Promoted to general attorney of the Immigration Service in 1958. she was appointed director of the Chicago district office of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service 7 years later. thus becoming the highest salaried female civil servant in the history of the Immigration Service. Mrs. Hurney is a member of the American Bar Association. the Federal Bar Association. and a former member of the board of directors of the District of Columbia Womens Bar Association.
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