Given the country’s extreme polarization, there is something to be said for giving voters a voice in judicial elections ...

Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court, at her hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Illustration by Zoe Van Dijk; illustration reference: David Hume Kennerly ...

O'Connor, appointed as the nation's first female Supreme Court justice in 1981, died in Phoenix earlier this month Mourners gathered on Tuesday to remember the life of Sandra Day O'Connor ...

Sandra Day O’Connor, an Arizona icon who died in December ... After retiring from the Supreme Court, Justice O’Connor founded iCivics because “the practice of democracy is not passed down through the ...

“People often ask me if, as the first woman on the Supreme Court, I had any special preferences for my robe.” says Sandra Day O’Connor. “But honestly, I took whatever was available and put ...

Ronald Reagan promised to nominate the first woman to the U.S. Supreme Court. He made good on that promise in 1981, when he announced Sandra Day O’Connor’s nomination. O’Connor’s ...

Preservation Liberation Day Is Here Sandra Day O'Connor, who has died at 93, will be best remembered as the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. That is enough by itself to secure her place in ...

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From her early years on the Lazy B ranch in Arizona to her role as the first woman on the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O'Connor has personified the American pioneer. She secured a central role on the ...

Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman U.S. Supreme Court justice, described by The New York Times as "a rancher's daughter who wielded great power over American law from her seat at the center of ...