Justice Sandra Day O’Connor to Be Memorialized in National Cathedral Service President Biden and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. are scheduled to be among those speaking at the funeral for the first female justice.
Justice O’Connor, the First Woman on the Supreme Court, Lies in Repose The justices, former law clerks and the public gathered to remember Sandra Day O’Connor, who was the most powerful woman in the country during a critical time in American law.
The Supreme Court Once Reflected Social Consensus. No More. She believed the court’s decisions were mostly careful byproducts of an emerging social consensus. That may have been true then, but not today.
Sandra Day O’Connor’s Barrier-Breaking Marriage She showed her love for John in a way that neither of them could have envisioned.
I Clerked for Justice O’Connor. She Was My Hero, but I Worry About Her Legacy. She stands as a shining example of how women — everyone, really — can approach life and work.