The Latest Breaking News from Sandra Day OConnor

When Sandra Day O’Connor stepped down from the U.S. Supreme Court in 2006, she was the last justice to have served as an elected legislator. She previously was a member of the Arizona state Senate and later its majority leader.

The first woman on the Supreme Court gave the appearance of positive change — but she was a tool of the instutition

Former justice said in 2018 she was diagnosed with the beginning stages of dementia and withdrew from public life

Justice O’Connor played a pivotal role when issues like abortion, affirmative action, gender discrimination, and voting rights took center stage in American politics.

O’Connor, the first female U.S. Supreme Court justice, died Friday. She is more commonly known as an Arizonan, but she graduated high school in Texas and multiple schools here now bear her name.

First female justice of the US supreme court who cast the deciding vote in many of its most controversial cases

The former justice served from 1981 until 2006, during a time of transition for the nation’s highest court.

Former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, died Friday at age 93, according to a statement from the Supreme Court. O’Connor, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, served more than two decades on the court before retiring in 2006. The announcement from…

Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, has died