Justice Sandra Day O’Connor returned to Washington to lie in repose in the Great Hall of the U.S. Supreme Court building on Monday, as Justice Sonia Sotomayor lauded O’Connor as “her life role model” ...

By Linda Greenhouse Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the United States Supreme Court, a rancher’s daughter who wielded great power over American law from her seat at the center of the ...

If Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, did indeed have Alzheimer's disease, the diagnosis would be familiar to her family. Her husband of more than 50 years ...

WASHINGTON – When then-Sen. Joe Biden quizzed Sandra Day O’Connor in 1981 about the kind of Supreme Court justice she would be, he also had a question about her off-the-bench activities.

Long before her breakthrough appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court made her one of America’s most renowned jurists, Sandra Day O’Connor showed the qualities of pragmatism, wisdom, and patience ...

WASHINGTON — Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the Arizona rancher’s daughter who became a consistent voice of moderate conservatism as the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Dignitaries, loved ones and members of the public are gathering this week to honor former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the court, who died Dec. 1 at the ...

“The thought of a woman on the U.S. Supreme Court seemed distant, almost unfathomable, before President Ronald Reagan’s nomination of Sandra Day O’Connor," Veronica Vargas Stidvent ...

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor provided the early framework that steered the outcome in the dispute over the 2000 presidential election and ensured George W. Bush would win the White House over Al ...

By Wilson Wong Before there were the justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett, there was Sandra Day O’Connor. Justice O’Connor ...

Sandra Day O'Connor, one of the most influential women in American history, died Dec. 1, 2023, in Phoenix at age 93. Here's what to know about the U.S. Supreme Court trailblazer. Who was Sandra ...