https://padlet.com/s8894245/cvyajbmsp0ua She became the first woman justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. She felt the court's role was to interpret the law, not legislate it. en-us 2018-10-08 15:07:58 UTC 2018-10-10 15:45:41 UTC hello@padlet.com s8894245 https://padlet.com/s8894245/cvyajbmsp0ua/wish/290346948 2018-10-08 15:21:29 UTC https://padlet.com/s8894245/cvyajbmsp0ua/wish/290346948 s8894245 https://padlet.com/s8894245/cvyajbmsp0ua/wish/290349458 Sandra Day O'Connor is the 28th-longest-serving United States Supreme Court Justice by time in office (8,894 days).]]> 2018-10-08 15:26:25 UTC https://padlet.com/s8894245/cvyajbmsp0ua/wish/290349458 s8894245 https://padlet.com/s8894245/cvyajbmsp0ua/wish/290351143 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. ]]> 2018-10-08 15:29:52 UTC https://padlet.com/s8894245/cvyajbmsp0ua/wish/290351143 s8894245 https://padlet.com/s8894245/cvyajbmsp0ua/wish/290351962 2018-10-08 15:31:25 UTC https://padlet.com/s8894245/cvyajbmsp0ua/wish/290351962 s8894245 https://padlet.com/s8894245/cvyajbmsp0ua/wish/291282259 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.]]> 2018-10-10 14:46:36 UTC https://padlet.com/s8894245/cvyajbmsp0ua/wish/291282259 s8894245 https://padlet.com/s8894245/cvyajbmsp0ua/wish/291287690 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.]]> 2018-10-10 14:54:51 UTC https://padlet.com/s8894245/cvyajbmsp0ua/wish/291287690 s8894245 https://padlet.com/s8894245/cvyajbmsp0ua/wish/291296494 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.]]> 2018-10-10 15:09:18 UTC https://padlet.com/s8894245/cvyajbmsp0ua/wish/291296494 s8894245 https://padlet.com/s8894245/cvyajbmsp0ua/wish/291300443 2018-10-10 15:15:50 UTC https://padlet.com/s8894245/cvyajbmsp0ua/wish/291300443 s8894245 https://padlet.com/s8894245/cvyajbmsp0ua/wish/291301785 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.]]> 2018-10-10 15:18:05 UTC https://padlet.com/s8894245/cvyajbmsp0ua/wish/291301785 s8894245 https://padlet.com/s8894245/cvyajbmsp0ua/wish/291306499 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.]]> 2018-10-10 15:25:32 UTC https://padlet.com/s8894245/cvyajbmsp0ua/wish/291306499 s8894245 https://padlet.com/s8894245/cvyajbmsp0ua/wish/291310042 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". ]]> 2018-10-10 15:30:38 UTC https://padlet.com/s8894245/cvyajbmsp0ua/wish/291310042 s8894245 https://padlet.com/s8894245/cvyajbmsp0ua/wish/291315278 2018-10-10 15:39:18 UTC https://padlet.com/s8894245/cvyajbmsp0ua/wish/291315278