Sandra Day O’Connor: The First Woman on the Supreme Court

from Same Day, Different Century · host Zach Ipsen

On July 7, 1981, President Ronald Reagan announced his intention to nominate Sandra Day O'Connor to the United States Supreme Court. Nearly two centuries after the Court began its work, no woman had ever sat on its bench. Raised on a remote Arizona cattle ranch and once turned away by law firms that would only hire her as a secretary, O'Connor built a record that carried her to the pinnacle of American law.Send me a text!Support the show

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