forewoman

He didn’t appear to react when the jury forewoman announced the verdict.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

“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

Confusion at the Old Bailey arose when the jury forewoman stated they were not guilty, but later admitted she had meant to say no verdict had been reached.

From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2024

“It was a difficult case because we all trust law enforcement,” the jury forewoman, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023

The forewoman sent down word that No. 105 had not rung up that morning, and that I could have her key.

From The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself by Dorothy Richardson

A private dining-room is provided for the forewomen.

From The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa by Brandon Head

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

They were hand-and-glove with the forewomen, asked them to breakfast at their country houses, knelt to old Spricht as if he were the Pope himself.

From The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 by A. W. (Arthur Woollgar) Verrall

One of the most trying aspects of machine-speeding, in the sewing trades, is the perpetual goading and insistence of the foremen and forewomen, frequently mentioned by other workers besides Yeddie.

From Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls by Sue Ainslie Clark

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