Anna Weinstock Schneider was hired by the United States Conciliation Service (USCS) on December 16, 1922 at age 27, the first woman in an all white male agency. She was stationed in Worcester, MA, the center of the clothing and needle trades industry in the U.S. Prior to joining USCS, she had been President of the Boston Women’s Trade Union League, and an official in the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts recommended her to USCS. Her experience in clothing industry labor relations matched the USCS’s need to cover that important industry. Among her many awards during her long career, she received the Distinguished Service Award from FMCS Director Joseph F. Finnegan on December 16, 1957. Cornell University’s Ted Kheel Center Archive has an extensive collection on her life. She retired in 1965 at age 70, and began an arbitration career. She died in 1979 at age 83