Ruth Bader Ginsburg: About

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Who was Ruth Bader Ginsburg?

Ruth Bader Ginsburg became the second female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Born in 1933 in Brooklyn, New York, Bader taught at Rutgers University Law School and then at Columbia University, where she became its first female tenured professor. She served as the director of the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union during the 1970s, and was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 1980. Named to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1993 by President Bill Clinton, she continued to argue for gender equality in such cases as United States v. Virginia.  She died September 18, 2020.  Continue reading from History Channel

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Accomplishments

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a supreme court justice and singularly influential legal mind, was appointed by Bill Clinton in 1993, the court’s second-ever female justice, and served for nearly 30 years.

Strategic, contemplative and disciplined, but with a passion for the feminist cause that is rarely admitted into the halls of power, Ginsburg established an impressive legal legacy long before she became a judge. Over the course of a two-decade career as a lawyer before her appointment to the DC circuit court of appeals, she successfully argued cases that expanded civil rights law and 14th amendment protections to women, undoing a dense network of laws that had codified sex discrimination in all areas of American life. After she was elevated to the nation’s highest court, she found her own views moving left as the institution was pushed to the right. Her career was defined by courageous dissents that stood up for the principle of equal justice and kept alive the promise of a more free and fair America.  Continue reading from The Guardian

More Online Resources

• Arguments Before the Supreme Court by Ruth Bader Ginsburg  (Washington and Lee University of Law Library)
• A Closer Look at the Women Who Have Served on the Supreme Court (KSAT - San Antonio)
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg  (Academy of Achievement)
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg Fast Facts  (CNN News) 
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg Memorable Quotes Throughout Her Life  (Insider)
• Supreme Court of the United States (Supreme Court)
• Writings by Justice Ginsburg  (Cornell University - Legal Law Institute)