Eleanor Farina was the first female deputy sheriff in Cuyahoga County and quite possibly in the state of Ohio. In the 1930s, she worked in the office of the Cleveland Police Prosecutor during prohibition, issuing warrants for bootleg raids. She was appointed special attorney general of Ohio in 1934, handling bank liquidation cases. Farina and her family left Cleveland for Bernadillo County, New Mexico around 1950, where she served as a county probate judge before becoming a small claims court judge in 1957. In total, she sat on the bench for 44 years. She became active with the Albuquerque USO and served as president of the Albuquerque Lawyers’ Club.