Sandra Day O'Connor
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Sandra Day O'Connor was an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006. Nominated by President Ronald Reaga
Official portrait, c. 2002
O'Connor in 1974
Supreme Court justice-nominee Sandra Day O'Connor talks with President Ronald Reagan outside the White House, July 15, 1981.
O'Connor is sworn in by Chief Justice Warren Burger as her husband John O'Connor looks on.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was nominated by Presiden
Sandra Day O'Connor
…O'Connor was a proponent of collegiality among justices on the court, often insisting that the justices eat lunch together. In 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg became the second female Supreme Court justice. O'Connor said that she felt relief from the media clamor when she no longer was the only woman on the…
Official portrait, 2016
Ginsburg in 1959, wearing her Columbia Law School academic regalia
Ginsburg in 1977, photographed by Lynn Gilbert
Ginsburg in 1981