![]() GoreĢ008 - Develops the website, OurCourts which later becomes iCivics, a free program for students to learn about the US court system. ![]() Kennedy are the only justices who do not attach their names to either a concurring or dissenting opinion in the case. Bush becoming president of the United States. Carhartĭecember 2000 - Votes in the majority to end the recount in Florida which leads to George W. of EdĢ000 - Votes with the majority in a 5-4 decision that strikes down state laws banning the medical procedure that critics call “partial-birth” abortion. Renoġ999 - Writes the majority ruling opinion in the 5-4 sexual harassment ruling that public school districts that receive federal funds can be held liable when they are “deliberately indifferent” to the harassment of one student by another. OctoHas surgery for breast cancer after being diagnosed earlier in the year.ġ996 - Writes the majority opinion in a 5-4 decision to restrict affirmative action policies and voting districts that are created to boost political power of minorities. ![]() SeptemSworn in as the first female Supreme Court justice of the United States.ġ982 - Writes an opinion invalidating a women-only enrollment policy at a Mississippi State nursing school because it “tends to perpetuate the stereotyped view of nursing as an exclusively women’s job.” Mississippi University for Women, et al., v. She is the first woman to hold this office in any state.ġ975-1979 - Superior Court judge of Maricopa County.ġ979-1981 - Judge of the Arizona Court of Appeals.ĪugFormally nominated to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan, to fill the seat of retiring Justice Potter Stewart. In retirement, O’Connor has campaigned around the United States to abolish elections for judges, believing that a merit system leads to a more qualified and untainted judiciary.ġ952-1953 - County deputy attorney in San Mateo, California.ġ955-1957- Works as a civilian lawyer for the Quartermaster Corps in Germany, while her husband serves with the Army’s Judge Advocate General Corps.ġ959 - Opens a law firm in Maryvale, Arizona.ġ965-1969 - Assistant Attorney General of Arizona.ġ969 - Appointed to fill a vacant seat in the Arizona Senate.ġ972 - Reelected to the Arizona Senate and elected majority leader. At her confirmation hearings, she said, “Judges are not only not authorized to engage in executive or legislative functions, they are also ill-equipped to do so.” In law school, she was on the Stanford Law Review and third in her class.Ī proponent of judicial restraint. in Economics, 1950, graduated magna cum laude Stanford Law School, LL.B, 1952 Marriage: John Jay O’Connor III (1952-2009, his death)Įducation: Stanford University, B.A. Here is a look at the life of the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court, Sandra Day O’Connor.
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