Former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was elected to the Arizona State legislature in 1969, and served as a State Senator from 1969-1975; she was the Arizona Senate Majority Leader and Senate Republican Leader from 1973-1975.
No. Sandra Day O'Connor retired from the Supreme Court in January 2006 to spend time with her husband, John Jay O'Connor, who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Former Justice O'Connor is still alive as of June 2010, but her husband died on November 11, 2009.
Sandra Day O'Connor married John Jay O'Connor on December 20, 1952. Jay O'Connor died of Alzheimer's Disease in November 2009.
Brother was named Alan sister was named Isabella
Sandra Day O'Connor currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
She did nothing. she was super lazy and did nothing to help anyone. She was terrible.
President Ronald Reagan appointed Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, in 1981.
O'Connor retired in January 2006 and was succeeded by sitting Justice Samuel Alito.
Former Arizona Governor Jack Richard Williams appointed Sandra Day O'Connor to a seat on the Arizona State Senate in 1969. She was subsequently reelected, and served on the Senate until 1975, the last two years as Senate Majority Leader and Senate Republican Leader.
Former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbit appointed O'Connor to the Arizona Court of Appeals in 1979, where she served until President Reagan appointed her to the US Supreme Court in 1981.
Sandra Day O'Connor was important because she was the first woman ever appointed to the Supreme Court; President Reagan named her to that position in 1981. She was already well-respected as a lawyer, an Assistant Attorney General in her native Arizona, a state senator, and then a judge. Justice O'Connor saw herself as a centrist: she was a conservative Republican, but she was known for being fair and moderate in her decisions. She served until 2006.
President Reagan nominated Sandra Day O'Connor to replace Justice Potter Stewart in 1981. Justice O'Connor served on the Court from September 22, 1981 until her retirement on January 31, 2006, and was succeeded by incumbent Justice Samuel Alito.
The first woman to be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court was Sandra Day O'Connor. She was officially sworn in and took her seat on September 25, 1981.
Sandra Day OÕConner was the first woman to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court. She was appointed in 1981. She has overcome career struggles and criticism to be the first female Justice.
President Barack Obama nominated Justice Sotomayor in May 2009; she was confirmed by the Senate and joined the Supreme Court on August 8, 2009.
Yes. O'Connor became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on September 25, 1981, during Indira Gandhi's second term as India's prime minister, January 14, 1980 to October 31, 1984 (the day on which she was killed).
Sandra Day O'Connor graduated from the Radford School for Girls in Tucson, Arizona.
yes! she enjoyed reading and writing she also rode horses when little