Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, has died at 93
Associated PressWASHINGTON — Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, an unwavering voice of moderate conservatism and the first woman to serve on the nation’s highest court, died Friday. “A daughter of the American Southwest, Sandra Day O’Connor blazed an historic trail as our Nation’s first female Justice,” Roberts said in statement issued by the court. “I didn’t do all the things the boys did,” she said in a 1981 Time magazine interview, “but I fixed windmills and repaired fences.” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is shown before administering the oath of office to members of the Texas Supreme Court, Jan. 6, 2003, in Austin, Texas. “Justice O’Connor’s appointment was a pivotal moment in the history of the Supreme Court and the nation,” Justice Samuel Alito said at a public appearance in Washington Friday night.
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