Law Professor Extraordinaire
from Part I - Shaping a Legacy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2022
On August 10, 1993, for the first time in U.S. history, a female attorney general (Janet Reno) presented the commission of a president (William Clinton) to seat a female justice (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) on the United States Supreme Court. Ginsburg, a tireless advocate for equality between men and women, joined Sandra Day O’Connor as the second woman and the hundred-and-seventh justice on the high court. Ginsburg’s professional life before becoming a justice was unusual because she did not come from the public or private practice of law.
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