forewoman
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Tensions flared in court after the jury forewoman sent the judge a note saying one juror would not follow the judge's instructions on reasonable doubt.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
After the jury got the case, Trailer, the forewoman, went home and watched “12 Angry Men,” a legal drama about conflict between jurors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
The jury forewoman said Jennifer Crumbley wasn’t a “super reliable witness.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
“We all felt Mr. Lynch intended well,” Kitty Meese, the jury forewoman, told reporters, including one from The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
She was the forewoman, who worked the nursery with surprisingly few hands—only three men, if I remember rightly—but she looked as if she could do the work of "all two men" herself.
From Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur by Gertrude Jekyll
She said there were chances to make big wages there, because forewomen and draping hands were wanted more and girls who had anything in them had a better show than in a little place.
From The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel by John Maurice Miller
He began with closer individual supervision by the forewomen.
From Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, a contribution to the psychology of business by Walter Dill Scott
Under the deacons are "care-takers," who are the foremen and forewomen in the different pursuits.
From The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Charles Nordhoff
In every kitchen there is a forewoman cook—there are these forewomen in every department of the work of the women, and they correspond rather to the "noncoms" among the men.
From The Sword of Deborah First-hand impressions of the British Women's Army in France by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse
The forewomen also conform to this arrangement, but wear washing dresses of blue cotton to distinguish them from the girls.
From The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa by Brandon Head
