In 1977, Ms. Hall embarked on a seemingly unlikely campaign: putting women in coal mines. It was a matter of simple economics for her and for thousands of other women in Appalachia, one of America ...

Betty Jean Hall, 78, a Kentucky-born attorney who fought to make coal mining jobs available to women and went on to serve as an administrative judge overseeing the government’s benefits review ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Betty Jean Hall, an Appalachian attorney and federal administrative judge who paved the way for women to enter the coal mining workforce, has died. She was 78. Hall died ...

Betty Jean Hall, the young attorney who overcame coal company resistance to hiring women miners in the 1970s and went on to become an important federal administrative law judge overseeing ...

Betty Jean Hall grew up in the coal country of eastern Kentucky, a place where thousands of men braved the heavy darkness of the mines, the gruesome injuries that often befell them deep inside the ...

A century after underground explosions killed at least 53 people, a community commemorates the state’s ‘forgotten’ coal ...

Hall, an Appalachian attorney and federal administrative judge who paved the way for women to enter the coal mining workforce died at age 78 on Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. (Earl Dotter/UMW Journal via ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — Betty Jean Hall, an Appalachian attorney and federal administrative judge who paved the way for women to enter the coal mining workforce, has died. She was 78.