Court Rejects Woman as Boy Scout Leader

DERBY, Conn. — A Superior Court judge today rejected a 68-year-old woman’s bid to head a Boy Scout troop, agreeing with the organization that boys need a male leader.

The decision overturned a 1984 ruling by the state Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities that Catherine Pollard could lead a troop. She had been battling the Boy Scouts of America since 1974 for the right to head a scout troop.