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Dec 19, 2023 · 19) WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the Arizona rancher’s daughter who became a voice of moderate conservatism as the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, was memorialized by President Joe Biden on Tuesday as a pioneer in the legal world who inspired generations of women. Biden and Chief Justice John Roberts were among ...
Dec 19, 2023 · Historian says the Supreme Court building was O'Connor's "temple": Evan W. Thomas III described how the late Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was "the glue" of the Supreme Court, recalling how she encouraged the justices to get to know each other outside of the chamber. Thomas described her dedication to the law, saying she "found her church" in Washington, DC.
Dec 2, 2023 · When Laney Serface was a young girl growing up in Northern California, she pinned a news article about Sandra Day O’Connor among the ephemera of theater tickets and photographs on her bulletin ...
Sandra Day O’Connor (Retired), Associate Justice, was born in El Paso, Texas, March 26, 1930. She married John Jay O’Connor III in 1952 and had three sons—Scott, Brian, and Jay. She received her B.A. and LL.B. from Stanford University. She served as Deputy County Attorney of San Mateo County, California, from 1952 to 1953 and as a ...
Dec 1, 2023 · Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to sit on the US Supreme Court, has died aged 93. She died on Friday morning in Phoenix, Arizona due to complications related to dementia and a respiratory ...
Dec 1, 2023 · Sandra Day O'Connor: A ranch girl who became 'queen of the court' 19th Amendment: A century of pioneering women in US politics Justice O'Connor was born in El Paso, Texas, and grew up on her ...
Dec 1, 2023 · Sandra Day O'Connor does the pledge of allegiance while attending a citizenship hearing in Gilbert, Arizona, in 2005. Matt York/AP O'Connor, right, was born March 26, 1930, in El Paso, Texas.
