SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR – U.S. PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY

OVERVIEW:

BORN:
March 26, 1930:
El Paso, Texas

EDUCATION:
Stanford University (AB, 1950)
Stanford Law School (LLB,1952)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Republican

HIGHLIGHTS:
1952-1953:
Deputy County Attorney, San Mateo County, California
1954-1957:
Civil Attorney, Quartermaster Market Center, Frankfurt, Germany
1957-1965:
Attorney in Private Practice; Phoenix, Arizona
1965-1969:
Assistant Attorney General, Arizona
1969-1975:
State Senator, Arizona
1973-1975:
Majority Leader, Arizona Senate
1975-1979:
Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County
1979-1981:
Judge, Arizona Court of Appeals
1981-2006:
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court

PORTRAITS:

RESOURCES:

7/15/1981: President Reagan and his Supreme Court Justice nominee Sandra Day O’Connor at the White House (National Archives)

Supreme Court Historical Society
Oyez
Cornell University Law School
Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
Biography
Wikipedia
Sandra Day O’Connor Institute
Historic Decisions (Cornell University Law School)
Senate Confirmation Hearings

MEDIA COVERAGE:

Sandra Day O’Connor being sworn in a Supreme Court Justice by Chief Justice Warren Burger as her husband John O’Connor Looks On, 9/25/1981 (National Archives)

Nomination, 7/7/1981 (NYT, NYT)
Profile (WP, 6/11/1989)
Resignation, 7/1/2005 (WP, NYT)
Dementia, 10/23/2018 (WP, NYT, WSJ, Politico)