"Nine, nine... There have been nine men there for a long, long time, right? So why not nine women?"

Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg
Law
1933 – 2020
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About Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American lawyer and 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 to replace retiring justice Byron White, and at the time was viewed as a moderate consensus-builder. Ginsburg was the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court, after Sandra Day O'Connor.

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