Sandra+Day+O’Connor

=  S andra Day O'Connor = = Sandra Day O'Connor's birth took place on March 26, 1930, in El Paso, Texas. She spent her childhood in Arizona on the family's 155,000-acre ranch.She lived with he grandparents when she attended school. It was said that she was a brilliant student. She graduated from high school at the age of 16 and was accepted to Stanford Law. She became an editor of the Stanford Law Review and completed the undergraduate and law school programs in five years when it usually took seven. She met Jay O'Connor at Stanford and married him after graduation on December 20, 1952. Despite graduating the third in her class, she had difficulty finding a position at a law firm. = = - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - = = __CAREER__ = =**From 1954 to 1957 Sandra was a civilian lawyer for the U.S. Army's Quartermaster Corps in Germany. She had a position at the Arizona state attorney general's office, serving as a Republican from 1969 to 1974. Sandra was the first women to be appointed to the Supreme Court and has stayed true to her conservative political and legal beliefs. The Supreme court is the highest court in the U.S. and is located in Washington D.C. They determine the legality of conduct at all levels of government. She was one of the two conservatives appointed. She was appointed alongside Antonin Scalia by president Ronald Reagan in 1981. One day, on a Saturday, her and her husband stood outside the Supreme Court because they couldn't go in. Her husband stood in front of the steps and she took his picture. She thought this was the closest she would ever get to the Supreme Court. **= media type="youtube" key="Je8PcRZjcDU" width="425" height="350"

She was considered one of the most powerful judges on the court since she had the swing vote, or the deciding vote that decides which side has the majority vote when to opposing sides are evenly split. She was involved in cases that had to do with affirmative action, late-term abortion, and states' rights. Sandra had a reputation of a tough debater and strict party leader. Seven years later from being appointed, O'Connor underwent surgery for breast cancer and returned to office later after. It was anounced that O'Connor submitted a resignation letter to George W. Bush on July 1,2005. Bush nominated Samuel Alito to replace Sandra. On January 31, 2006 Alito was confirmed and sworn in. He previously worked as an attorney and federal prosector in President Ronal Reagan's administration. He was known as a conservative. Even while in office she remained productive. O'Connor wrote many books. In 2002 she cameout with a boo kreflecting on her childhood called LazyB: Growing up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest. She has a book that covers her years on the Supreme Court entitled The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice(2003). She has two childrens book that reflects on her childhood on the ranch and they're entitled Chico(2005) and Finding Susie(2009).

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