SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR
Politics
Born: March 26, 1930
El Paso, Texas
"I was very fortunate in my life to have some opportunities to do work which was particularly interesting. I might not have felt the same way if the work hadn't been so interesting. But for me, it always was."
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is the 102nd member and the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. O'Connor received her law degree from Stanford University. She was assistant attorney general of Arizona from 1965 to 1968 and was appointed to the Arizona state senate in 1969, from where she rose to senate majority leader. In July 1981, President Ronald Reagan fulfilled his campaign pledge and appointed a woman (Sandra Day O'Connor) to the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy left by retiring judge Potter Stewart. O'Connor is known as a scrupulous legal scholar.
1. Sandra Day O'Connor was the first womon to serve on the U.S. _______ _____.
2. She got her law degree from _______ University.
3. She was appointed as a Supreme Court Justice by President ______ ______.
4. She replaced the retiring judge ______ _______.
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