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Sandra Day O'Connor: A ranch girl who became 'queen of the court'

2023-12-02 00:47
As the first woman on the Supreme Court, Justice O'Connor was a trailblazer and a powerful moderate.
Sandra Day O'Connor: A ranch girl who became 'queen of the court'

"Good in every way, except he's not a woman."

This was the ambivalent reaction of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to the nomination of her successor to the US Supreme Court.

Such sentiments were typical of O'Connor, the first female justice to sit on the nation's top court.

The expectations...