 She was active in the New York Democratic State Committee, the New York City Bar Association, the New York chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Legal Defense Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.In 1929, she married Benjamin Buttenwieser, a prominent banker and philanthropist and son of attorney Joseph L. Buttenwieser.She left Cravath after a year because of the impending birth of a child.