Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg (March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020.

She was nominated by President Bill Clinton and was generally viewed as a moderate judge who was a consensus builder at the time of her nomination.

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  • Notable opinions; United States v. Virginia (1996), Olmstead v. L.C. (1999), and Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc. (2000).
  • Bachelor’s degree at Cornell University
  • Married and became a mother before starting law school at Harvard
  • Transferred to Columbia Law School, graduated joint first in her class
  • Professor at Rutgers Law School and Columbia Law School
  • Volunteer for American Civil Liberties Union
  • President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit