Sandra Day O'Connor
Sandra Day O'Connor was an American jurist who served as the first female Justice of the Supreme Court, appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1981 and serving until 2006.
Known as a moderate conservative and frequent swing vote, her opinions often determined outcomes in closely divided cases on abortion, affirmative action, and religious liberty.
- Supreme CourtNation's top tribunal
- first womanPrimordial female human
- Arizona48th state admitted
- trailblazerFirst to forge ahead
- lawBinding principle or regulation
opinion · bench · gender equality · women's rights · jurisprudence · constitutional law · dissenting opinion · robe · swing vote · Bush v Gore · landmark decision · legal precedent · empowerment · civic engagement · judicial review · role model · appellate court · retirement
- notable womenRosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Florence Nightingale, Susan B. Anthony
- American WomenRosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Susan B. Anthony, Amelia Earhart
- women's rightssuffrage movement, women's suffrage, women's rights, gender equality, feminism
- 1981 EventsIBM PC, DeLorean, hunger strikes, hostage release, Hill Street Blues
- Women in LawRuth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson, civil rights lawyer, corporate lawyer
- women leadersMargaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel, Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Jacinda Ardern
judicial philosophy
Sandra Day O'ConnorClarence Thomas
Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Thurgood Marshall · strict constructionist · ideologue · originalist