Alma Soller McLay

Alma Florence Soller McLay (28 December 1919 - 5 April 2017) was a member of Robert H. Jackson's team that prosecuted Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg after World War II. At the time of her death in 2017, she was the last surviving member of this team.[1][2][3]

McLay was born Alma Florence Soller on December 28, 1919 in Narrowsburg, New York. She began to work for the Department of Defense in 1941. At the end of World War II she met then U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson who asked her to document what would be the Nuremberg trials as transcriber[3] together with Elsie L. Douglas.[4] Jackson's Biographer, John Q. Barrett, said that McLay, "probably never got the full credit she deserved for her work transcribing the testimony, often in various languages and in shorthand, and collating the evidence." McLay later married Stanley McLay, an Air Force colonel, and they moved to Rancho Palos Verdes, California in 1954. McLay retired in 1984.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Alma Soller".
  2. ↑ "Last Jackson Nuremberg Team Member Passes Away - News, Sports, Jobs - Post Journal". www.post-journal.com.
  3. 1 2 3 "Alma McLay, last surviving member of U.S. team that prosecuted Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg, dies at 97". 10 April 2017 – via LA Times.
  4. ↑ Jackson, Robert H. Report of Robert H. Jackson, United States Representative to the International Conference on Military Trials. Washington, DC: US GPO, 1949.
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