The First Female U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O’Connor, Passed Away At Age 93
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On December 1, 2023, Sandra Day O’Connor died in Phoenix, AZ at the age of 93, due to complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness. After her death, Chief Justice John Roberts called her “an eloquent advocate for civil education” and a “fiercely independent defender of the rule of law” in a public statement.
Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, will be remembered as one of the most influential women in American history. Sandra Day O’Connor, the Arizona ranch girl who was a fixture in Arizona’s statehouse and judiciary before becoming the first woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, died Friday of complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness, in the video published on Dec 1, 2023, by azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic, as “Sandra Day O’Connor, Supreme Court trailblazer and Arizona icon, dies at 93“, below:
For more about Sandra Day O’Connor, please refer to the excerpt from wikipedia, in italics, below:
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. O’Connor was the first woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court justice.[5] A moderate conservative, O’Connor was known for her precisely researched opinions.[6] Nominated by President Ronald Reagan, she was considered a swing vote for the Rehnquist Court and the first four months of the Roberts Court. Before O’Connor’s tenure on the Court, she was a judge and an elected official in Arizona, serving as the first female majority leader of a state senate as the Republican leader in the Arizona Senate.[7] Upon her nomination to the Court, O’Connor was confirmed unanimously by the Senate.
On July 1, 2005, O’Connor announced her intention to retire, effective upon the confirmation of a successor.[8] Samuel Alito was nominated to take her seat in October 2005 and joined the Court on January 31, 2006.
O’Connor most frequently sided with the Court’s conservative bloc but demonstrated an ability to side with the Court’s liberal members. She often wrote concurring opinions that sought to limit the reach of the majority holding. Her majority opinions in landmark cases include Grutter v. Bollinger and Hamdi v. Rumsfeld. She wrote in part the per curiam majority opinion in Bush v. Gore and was one of three co-authors of the lead opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
During her time on the Court, O’Connor was regarded as among the most powerful women in the world.[9][10] After retiring, she succeeded Henry Kissinger as the Chancellor of the College of William & Mary.
On August 12, 2009, O’Connor was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.[11]
In 2004, Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female member of the U.S. Supreme Court, told Scott Pelley how her appointment to the country’s highest bench had an “incredible ripple effect” for women. The retired associate justice died today at the age of 93, in the video published on Dec 1, 2023, by 60 Minutes, as “Sandra Day O’Connor| 60 Minutes Archive“, below:
In 2009, Justice O’Connor was interviewed as part of C-SPAN’s Supreme Court Week. She talked about the role the Founding Fathers envisioned for the Supreme Court. She also talked about the judicial collars that female justices wear, the Robing Room, and oral argument. The interview took place in the West Conference Room of the Supreme Court, in the video published on Dec 1, 2023, by C-SPAN, as “C-SPAN 2009 Interview with Justice Sandra Day O’Conner“, below:
Sandra Day O’Connor, the history-making justice who was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, died Friday at 93. Her tenure is notable not just because she was the first woman, but also because of what she did in her 24 years there. Judy Woodruff and John Yang take a look at O’Connor’s legacy both on and off the court, in the video published on Dec 1, 2023, by PBS NewsHour, as “Remembering Sandra Day O’Connor and her legacy on and off the Supreme Court“, below:
Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court and who emerged as the swing vote on some of the court’s biggest cases, died Friday. She was 93. O’Connor died in Phoenix of “complications related to advanced dementia, probably Alzheimer’s, and a respiratory illness,” the court announced in a statement. Just over a decade after she retired, O’Connor had announced in 2018 that she was withdrawing from public life after being diagnosed with dementia, in the video published on Dec 1, 2023, by KTSM 9 NEWS, as “Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman to serve on Supreme Court, dies at 93“, below:
Sandra Day O’Connor, the Supreme Court’s first woman justice, died Friday at 93 years old. Evan Thomas, a biographer of the former justice, joins CBS News to discuss O’Connor’s legacy, in the video published on Dec 1, 2023, by CBS News, as “Why Ronald Reagan chose Sandra Day O’Connor for the Supreme Court“, below:
Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to take the bench and a key swing vote during her tenure, has died at the age of 93. Former Newsweek editor Evan Thomas, longtime friend of O’Connor Lynda Webster, and Pete Williams, who covered O’Connor for NBC during her time on the bench, join Andrea Mitchell to discuss her life and legacy. “Culturally, the fact that she was the first woman on the court and that she once famously said, “I don’t want to be the last. I want to do a good job because if I don’t, it’ll probably be a long time before another woman is appointed to the Supreme Court,” Pete tells Andrea. “And she really was the sort of glue that held everybody together. Her legal significance is considerable. Her jurisprudence was very practically oriented because she had a life experience growing up on a ranch in Arizona serving as an elected official. She had an experience that other justices who come through a more ivory tower-ish kind of background don’t have.” in the video published on Dec 1, 2023, by MSNBC, as “Pete Williams: Sanra Day O’Connor was the glue that held everybody together’ on Supreme Court“, below:
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has died at the age of 93. She made history by becoming the first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice in 1981, in the video published on Dec 1, 2023, by Arizona PBS, as “An Arizona ranch girl who became an American icon: Remembering Sandra Day O’Connor|Arizona Horizon“, below:
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