Sandra Day O'Connor
Sandra Day O'Connor ( born March 26, 1930 in El Paso, Texas) is an American lawyer. She worked from 1981 to 2006 as the first woman judge on the United States Supreme Court.
Life
O'Connor was born in El Paso, Texas, the daughter of rancher Harry A. Day and Ada Mae and his wife grew up on the family ranch in Arizona on. There she met in addition to riding the normal labor in agriculture know. 1935 her parents sent her to a private school for girls in El Paso. There she lived with her grandmother. Great longing for the ranch drove but briefly returned to her parents.
She attended Stanford University, where she made the 1950 bachelor's degree in economics. Thereafter, she attended the prestigious Stanford Law School, where she received her bachelor's degree in law. She showed great skills and completed the course in two instead of the usual three years from and was in addition to the three best students of the final year group. At this school, she also met her future husband Jay O'Connor, whom she married shortly after graduating in the same year.
Despite these excellent results, they found no employment, possibly because she was a woman. But a job as a secretary was offered to her. Therefore, she went to the public sector and worked for the prosecutor's office in San Mateo County. This work, she gave up in 1954 and moved to Frankfurt, where she worked for the United States Army. In 1957 she left Frankfurt again and went into the Maricopa County. That same year she had her first son. In the following years she had two other sons and therefore did not work more full time. But this did not stop them from pursuing various legal activities. At the same time she was working for the Republican Party. In 1965, she was Assistant to the Attorney General ( Assistant Attorney General ) of Arizona. Four years later she became a member of the Senate of Arizona.
Supreme Court
On July 7, 1981, Ronald Reagan beat her for the Supreme Court as successor to the retiring Potter Stewart in June before and nominated officially on August 19. On September 21, the Senate confirmed she and O'Connor was sworn in on 25 September 1981. She was the first woman in this institution. The next woman came only in 1993 with Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
On 1 July 2005, she resigned her judgeship of the Supreme Court. As the successor nominated George W. Bush on 3 October 2005 Harriet Miers, but a few weeks later withdrew from her nomination. On September 29, 2005 John Roberts, who was originally nominated to succeed O'Connor, chief judge (Chief Justice of the United States ) and sworn followers of the late William H. Rehnquist meantime. O'Connor was ultimately replaced on January 31, 2006 by Samuel Alito in office.
Work
During the presidential elections of 2000, there were inconsistencies in the counting of votes in the decisive Florida. You voted for the completion of the recount and enabled so that George W. Bush took office on 20 January 2001.
Works
- "The Changing of the Circuit Justice", 1986
- " Swinford Lecture ", 1985
- Sandra Day O'Connor and H. Alan Day: Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest, 2001
- The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice, 2003
- "Finding Susie ", 2009