Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Judge

1933 – 2020

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Who was Ruth Bader Ginsburg?

Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Ginsburg was appointed by President Bill Clinton and took the oath of office on August 10, 1993. She is the second female justice and the first Jewish female justice.

She is generally viewed as belonging to the liberal wing of the Court. Before becoming a judge, Ginsburg spent a considerable portion of her legal career as an advocate for the advancement of women's rights as a constitutional principle. She advocated as a volunteer lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union and was a member of its board of directors and one of its general counsel in the 1970s. She was a professor at Rutgers School of Law–Newark and Columbia Law School. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

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Born
Mar 15, 1933
Brooklyn
Also known as
  • Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg
  • Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Parents
Spouses
Children
Religion
  • Judaism
Ethnicity
  • Jewish American
Profession
Education
  • Bachelor of Laws, Columbia Law School
    ( - 1959)
  • Bachelor of Arts, Cornell University
    ( - 1954)
  • Harvard Law School
  • Columbia University
  • James Madison High School
  • Harvard University
Employment
  • Rutgers School of Law-Newark
    (1963 - 1972)
  • Law clerk, Edmund L. Palmieri
    (1959 - 1961)
  • Associate Director, Project on International Procedure, Columbia Law School
    (1962 - 1963)
  • Research Associate, Project on International Procedure, Columbia Law School
    (1961 - 1962)
  • Columbia Law School
    (1972 - 1980)
  • Columbia University
Lived in
  • Brooklyn
  • Fort Sill
Died
Sep 18, 2020
Washington DC

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

Modified by Soulwriter
on November 09, 2021

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