RUTH BADER GINSBURG

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FULL NAME:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

BORN:
March 15, 1933;
Brooklyn, New York City

DIED:
September 18, 2020 (Age 87);
Washington, DC

EDUCATION:
Cornell University (AB, 1954)
Harvard Law School
Columbia Law School (LLB, 1959)

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
1959-1961:
Legal secretary, Hon. Edmund L. Palmieri, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
1961-1963:
Research Associate/ Associate Director, Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure
1963-1972:
Professor, Rutgers Law School
1972-1980:
Professor, Columbia Law School
1972-1980:
General Counsel,  American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU);
Counsel, ACLU  Women’s Right Project
1974-1980:
Member, ACLU National Board of Directors 
1977-1980:
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California,
1980-1993:
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit 
1993-2020:
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court 

RESOURCES:

6/14/1993: President Clinton with Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the Rose Garden at the press conference held to announce Judge Ginsburg as President Clinton’s nominee to replace retiring Associate Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White. (Photo Credit: Sharon Farmer/ National Archives)

Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
Supreme Court Historical Society
Oyez
Cornell University Law School
Historic Decisions (Cornell University Law School)
Opinions (Cornell University Law School)
Wikipedia

PORTRAITS:

Supreme Court Photo (2016)
Supreme Court Photo (2006)

MEDIA COVERAGE:

8/10/1993 Chief Justice William Rehnquist swearing in Ruth Bader Ginsburg as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, as her husband Martin Ginsburg and President Bill Clinton watch (Ralph Alswang/ National Archives)

NOMINATION (6/14/1993):
C-SPAN
Washington Post
New York Times

ANALYSIS (6/14/1993):
New York Times
New York Times 

PROFILES:
New Yorker (3/11/2013)

OBITUARIES (9/19/2020):
New York Times
Washington Post
Wall Street Journal
National Public Radio
The New Yorker
Politico

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