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Sandra Day O'Connor (March 26, 1930 – December 1, 2023) 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 Reagan, O'Connor was the first woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court justice.
May 19, 2024 · Sandra Day O’Connor, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006. She was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court. A moderate conservative, she was known for her pragmatism and for her dispassionate and meticulously researched opinions.
Dec 1, 2023 · Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the United States Supreme Court, a rancher’s daughter who wielded great power over American law from her seat at the center of the court’s ideological ...
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- Linda Greenhouse
Nov 9, 2009 · Learn about the life and career of Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Find out how she became a moderate conservative justice, upheld Roe v. Wade, and retired in 2006.
Dec 1, 2023 · View slideshow. Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the court, died Friday in Phoenix, Ariz., of complications related to advanced dementia,...
- Nina Totenberg
Dec 19, 2023 · President Biden remembered the Supreme Court’s first female justice as “gracious and wise, civil and principled” in a ceremony at Washington National Cathedral.
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Dec 2, 2023 · WASHINGTON (AP) — One fall day in 2010, retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor slipped into the courtroom where she worked for nearly 25 years to take in an “amazing” sight. The first — and for 12 years, the only — woman on the high court saw three women in black robes among the nine justices.
