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Post by Admin on Dec 1, 2023 18:37:11 GMT
Sandra Day O’Connor, First Woman On Supreme Court, Dies At 93 Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the nation’s highest court, died at the age of 93 Friday morning at her home in Phoenix, the court announced.
[Washington Kyodo] Sandra O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, died on the 1st in Arizona, according to multiple U.S. media outlets. O'Connor was 93 years old.
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Post by Admin on Dec 2, 2023 4:55:01 GMT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor died on the 1st in Phoenix, Arizona. He was 93 years old. According to the court, the cause of death was complications related to advanced dementia and respiratory disease.
O'Connor was appointed as the first female judge on the U.S. Supreme Court in 1981 and served as a judge for a quarter of a century until 2006. She was diagnosed with dementia in her later years and retired from public life in October 2018.
Chief Justice John Roberts said that Ms. O'Connor ''blazed a historic path as our nation's first female judge,'' and ''tacked on issues with unflinching determination, undoubted ability, and charming candor.''
O'Connor played a key role in rulings on some of the most controversial issues of the time, including upholding women's right to abortion and affirmative action in universities.
After retiring from the military, Mr. O'Connor worked to improve civics education.
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Post by Admin on Dec 20, 2023 6:09:19 GMT
At a Tuesday funeral service for Sandra Day O'Connor, President Joe Biden and Chief Justice John Roberts spoke about her life and work as the first woman to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice. Here's what you need to know about the funeral at Washington National Cathedral: Biden hailed Sandra O'Connor's work for empowering women: "Sandra Day O'Connor, the daughter of the American West, was a pioneer in her own right, breaking down the barriers of legal and political worlds and the nation's consciousness," he said. Under great pressure and scrutiny, she helped "empower generations of women," "open doors, secure freedoms, and prove that a woman can not only do anything a man can do," but many times do it "a heck of a lot better," he said, adding she was "gracious and wise, civil and principled." Roberts said she was so successful in breaking barriers that they seem "unthinkable" today: "Sandra Day O'Connor had to study and launch a career in the law when most men in the established profession did not want women lawyers — let alone judges," he said, adding the measure of her life and work is that "younger people today cannot understand what it was like before Justice O'Connor." Roberts also remembered O'Connor's approach at the court as "simple and direct: Get it done." 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. "Her temple, you might say, was the white marble building on First Street, NE," he said, referring to the Supreme Court building in the city.
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