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In 2002 O'Connor offered a bit more insight into her complex character by publishing the memoir Lazy B: Growing up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest. She wrote it with her brother H. Alan Day. In it, O'Connor offers a look into how her Arizona ranch roots shaped her life, career, and views.

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Sandra Day O’Connor (Author), H. Alan Day (Author)

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Lazy B: Growing up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest

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Amazon.com: Lazy B: Growing up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest: 9780812966732: O’Connor, Sandra Day, Day, H. Alan: Books

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I don't know about you, but many days my work email fills up faster than I can keep up with it. I start to wonder, if everyone's email is the same as mine, how many people actually see any of the emails that are sent out?

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I don't know about you, but many days my work email fills up faster than I can keep up with it. I start to wonder, if everyone's email is the same as mine, how many people actually see any of the emails that are sent out?

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Sandra Day O'Connor was born in El Paso, Texas, on August 26, 1930. Her parents,are Harry and Ida Mae Day,they owned a cattle ranch in southeastern Arizona called the Lazy B. In the beginning, the ranch did not have electricity or running water. Sandra grew up branding cattle, learning to fix whatever was broken, and enjoying life on the ranch.

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Books: Lazy B, Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest by Sandra Day O'Connor and H. Alan Day

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The first woman justice on the United States Supreme Court sat in a wicker-backed, wooden armchair, eating caviar and greeting a parade of visitors Sunday at Iron Horse Vineyards, where she was the guest of honor at an Earth Day celebration.

Sandra Day O'Connor, as intellectually deft as she was on the high court bench for a quarter century, was nimble in her role as the reception's center-of-attention. She engaged everyone and every subject that came her way, though not about the law or other great issues of the day. They didn't come up.

"Are you learning anything? Do they do a good job there?" she inquired of Diana Ruiz, a UC Santa Cruz conservation biology student.

To another visitor, who had thanked her for the signed "version" of the U.S. Constitution that all guests received, O'Connor retorted, "It's not a 'version,' it's the real thing."

And as a woman told her how, in an earlier, harder time, O'Connor's words had inspired her to carry on, she said, "You're going to make me cry."

"I couldn't have done it without you," responded Jo Diaz, 68, of Windsor, who owns a marketing firm.

Diaz said she was struggling years ago to survive as a house cleaner when O'Connor said, "No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom." The statement helped her persevere.

O'Connor, an 84-year-old Arizona resident, was appointed to the court in 1981 by President Ronald Reagan and still works as a judge on the federal circuit. She was a Stanford University classmate of Iron Horse founders Barry and Audrey Sterling, and was the keynote speaker for its annual Earth Day event.

"We like our wine, we like our grapes. I'm glad to be celebrating Earth Day," she told a well-wisher, a chuckle in her voice.

A security detail was always a few feet away. Audrey Sterling sat nearby and introduced guests. The 100 visitors, who had paid $300 to meet O'Connor in the Sterling's house on the winery property, tended to remain at a distance and lean forward to shake her hand.

"It's an honor," most of them said. "Thank you."

"She's the first woman to join the Supreme Court; that's powerful to me," said Ruiz, 25, of Santa Rosa, the UC Santa Cruz biology student with whom O'Connor chatted for several minutes.

"She seemed incredibly humble and kind. And as a woman in the sciences, it's so great to meet another woman who has broken those barriers," Ruiz said.

O'Connor - who introduced herself to guests as "Sandra O'Connor" - still carries the authoritative air of a judge on the nation's highest court, where she still keeps an office.

"Get some caviar," she said to a reporter, refusing to take no for an answer.

"I don't understand your question," she said sharply at one point.

Later, noting it was a casual event, she insisted the reporter remove his tie.

A crowd of about 300 gathered later in a tent to hear O'Connor speak. She told of growing up on an Arizona cattle ranch to which rain was a lifeblood.

Those memories, she said, "highlight how great a gift it is that we have our natural resources, and how important it is that we conserve them."

Revenues from the Sunday event, which usually is a fundraiser, were used instead to pay for the party because, as a federal judge, O'Connor cannot be featured in fundraising activities, said Joy Sterling, the winery's CEO.

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Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor keynotes Earth Day event

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The first woman justice on the United States Supreme Court sat in a wicker-backed, wooden armchair, eating caviar and greeting a parade of visitors Sunday at Iron Horse Vineyards, where she was the guest of honor at an Earth Day celebration.

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By age four, she had learned how to read. Exploring places and schools that would be the best match for O'Connor's abilities, her parents decided to send her to El Paso to live with her grandmother and attend school. In El Paso she attended Rad ford School for girls and Austin High. She spent her summers at the ranch and the school years with her grandmother. She graduated high school early at the age of sixteen.In 1946, after competing against many other people and despite the probability that she might not be accepted because she was a woman, O'Connor was accepted to Stanford University. In a program in which she finished two degrees in just six years instead of seven, she graduated in 1950 with a bachelor's degree in economics and received a law degree in 1952.

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After graduating, O'Connor tried to get a job in Los Angeles and San Francisco law firms, but because of the prejudices against women at that time (unfair treatment based on her sex), she could not get a job as a lawyer. She was offered a position as a legal secretary, which did not match her education and training.Upon their return to the United States, the O'Connors settled in the Phoenix, Arizona, area. O'Connor and another lawyer opened a law office in suburban Maryvale, but for the next few years she devoted most of her time to raising her three sons, who were born between 1957 and 1962. She also joined many groups to improve her community and she began to take an active role in local Republican politics.

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In 1965 O'Connor returned to full-time employment as one of Arizona's assistant attorneys general, an assistant to the chief law officer in the state. In 1969 the state senator from her district resigned, which led Governor Jack Williams (1909–1998) to appoint O'Connor to replace him. When the position was open for election in 1970, O'Connor won it and was easily reelected again in 1972. She was chosen as the Republican majority leader in the state senate in 1972. This was the first time that any woman anywhere in the country had held that position.

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How long has Sandra Day O'Connor served as US Supreme Court Justice?

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How long has Sandra Day O'Connor served as US Supreme Court Justice?

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Sandra Day O'Connor is the 28th-longest-serving United States Supreme Court Justice by time in office (8,894 days).

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Sandra Day never gave up with what she had to do. She proved to people that woman can do the same things men do. She proved to everyone that you can do what you want to do if you stick with it. Sandra Day was named after a high school and a collage "Sandra Day O'Connor Collage of law".

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Arizona State University's law school has created a scholarship program for military veterans. | File photo

Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law recently created a scholarship program for U.S. military veterans thanks to Deborah Carstens, whose late husband was an attorney who served in the Marine Corps.

The initiative will give four complete scholarships for a J.D. degree to veteran students. Carsten made the donation after learning that financial limitations had kept some Marines from attending law school, with two slated for former Marines and two for one-time Special Forces members, including Army Rangers, Greet Berets, Navy Seals and others.

"I congratulate ASU for paying particular attention to the military," Carsten said. "America has been at war for 16 years, and too many of us don't show enough appreciation for the 2 percent of Americans who defend our country by voluntarily serving in the military."

Carsten complimented ASU's overall dedication to veteran students and additionally stressed the importance of community support for academic institutions.

"We are especially proud of the students who have served our country, and we want to do everything possible to help prepare them for meaningful careers as they transition back to civilian life," ASU Law Dean Douglas Sylvester said. "We thank Deb for her generous donation and dedication to creating and enhancing student opportunities."

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Military spouse funds ASU law scholarships

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Arizona State University's law school has created a scholarship program for military veterans. | File photo Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law recently created a scholarship program for U.S. military veterans thanks to Deborah Carstens, whose late husband was an attorney who served in the Marine Corps.

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Although she was not a strong supporter of the women's movement, O'Connor was a founder of both the Arizona Women Lawyers Association and the National Association of Women Judges. She also had fought to remove discrimination (or unequal treatment) against women from her state's bar (the body that governs law) rules and community property laws. As a justice, she was against discrimination based on gender. Her most famous Supreme Court opinion (a formal written statement by a judge) was in the court case Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan (1982). In this decision, the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional for a state nursing school to refuse to admit men. With this decision, she displayed her ability to rule on equality issues that affect men.