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Day 21 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the second woman to serve on the US Supreme court and one of only four in history. She is 85, she shows little sign of slowing down.
She was born in Brooklyn in 1933 (same year as my father) and went to Cornell University for her BA then attended Harvard Law and graduate from Columbia Law School, tied for first in her class.
Ginsburg says she and the other female law students were asked on her first day of law school, "How do you justify taking a spot from a qualified man?"
Ginsburg is a champion of women’s rights and equality and even worked for a time in the ACLU. She is probably considered the most liberal voice on the Supreme Court today.
Born in 1933, she came up in a man’s world and would run into the opinion that men were somehow more qualified to be lawyers and judges than she was but that didn’t stop her. She persisted in law as well as having a family and husband. She was appointed to the Supreme Court by Bill Clinton in 1993.
In recent years, she has become a pop culture icon for her stance against the eroding of civil liberties. Notorius RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, written by Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik, and Ping Zhu is an irreverent look at the life of Ginsburg as a champion of justice. She is often referred to as Notorious RBG and even admitted that she owns a supply of t-shirts that she gives as gifts.
She published a collection of her essays and speeches, In My Own Words in 2016.
On the cover of the Rolling Stone --- err, Time Magazine (and it’s not even fake).
From her high school yearbook:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the second woman to serve on the US Supreme court and one of only four in history. She is 85, she shows little sign of slowing down.
She was born in Brooklyn in 1933 (same year as my father) and went to Cornell University for her BA then attended Harvard Law and graduate from Columbia Law School, tied for first in her class.
Ginsburg says she and the other female law students were asked on her first day of law school, "How do you justify taking a spot from a qualified man?"
Ginsburg is a champion of women’s rights and equality and even worked for a time in the ACLU. She is probably considered the most liberal voice on the Supreme Court today.
Born in 1933, she came up in a man’s world and would run into the opinion that men were somehow more qualified to be lawyers and judges than she was but that didn’t stop her. She persisted in law as well as having a family and husband. She was appointed to the Supreme Court by Bill Clinton in 1993.
In recent years, she has become a pop culture icon for her stance against the eroding of civil liberties. Notorius RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, written by Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik, and Ping Zhu is an irreverent look at the life of Ginsburg as a champion of justice. She is often referred to as Notorious RBG and even admitted that she owns a supply of t-shirts that she gives as gifts.
She published a collection of her essays and speeches, In My Own Words in 2016.
On the cover of the Rolling Stone --- err, Time Magazine (and it’s not even fake).
From her high school yearbook:
