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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.
On April 5, 2006, Arizona State University renamed its law school the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. [8] O'Connor's house was moved from Paradise Valley, Ariz., to Tempe's Papago Park. In 2009, Justice O'Connor's house was relocated from its original site on Denton Lane in Paradise Valley to 1230 North College Avenue in Tempe Papago Park.
On May 20, Diane Wood and Elena Kagan attended a conference on judicial independence at Georgetown University hosted by retired Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. [35] Ultimately, Obama winnowed his list to four individuals, all of them women: Sotomayor, Wood, Kagan, and Napolitano. [36] Obama conducted hour-long one-on-one interviews with ...
As a judge and Arizona legislator, a cancer survivor and child of the Texas plains, Sandra Day O'Connor was like the pilgrim in the poem she sometimes quoted – forging a new path and building a ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, whose centrist views and shrewd negotiating skills allowed her to steer the nation’s law ...
O’Connor retired from the high court in 2006 after more than two decades, and died Dec. 1 at age 93. Sandra Day O’Connor called a pioneer and 'iconic jurist' as she is memorialized by Biden ...
Former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who blazed a trail as the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court, died Friday, the Supreme Court said. She was 93 years old.O'Connor died of complications ...
Sandra Day O'Connor. ... Billie Jean King, President Barack Obama and More Pay Tribute. How did Sandra Day O'Connor get her start? O'Connor was born in 1930 in El Paso, Texas, and expressed an ...