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Biography

Name: Sandra Day O'Connor
Birth Date: August 26, 1930
Place of Birth: El Paso, Texas, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: supreme court justice

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Biography of Sandra Day O'Connor
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In 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor (born 1930) became the first woman to serve as a justice of the United States Supreme Court. During the final month of the 1980 presidential campaign, candidate Ronald Reagan, whose polls disclosed a lack of support among...
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Biography of Sandra Day O'Connor
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Sandra Day O'Connor was described by some as the most influential woman in America. She was the first woman named to the United States Supreme Court. Born March 26, 1930 in El Paso, Texas, to cattle ranchers, O'Connor was raised on her family's ranch....


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Sandra Day O’Connor Quotes
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Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances. The power I exert on the court depends on...


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O'Connor's son discusses ailing father
11/14/2007: 410 words, approx. 1 pages
Sandra Day O'Connor's husband struck up a romance with a fellow Alzheimer's patient after moving into an assisted living center, and under the circumstances, the retired Supreme Court justice is just glad that he is comfortable, her son told a TV station.The retired justice isn't...
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Former Justice O'Connor's husband forms romance with fellow Alzheimer's patient, family says
11/14/2007: 466 words, approx. 2 pages
The husband of retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor struck up a romance with a fellow Alzheimer's patient after moving into an assisted living center, and under the circumstances, his wife is just glad that he is comfortable, her son told a TV station.The...
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Romance for dementia patients can provide comfort, but devastate families
11/21/2007: 730 words, approx. 2 pages
When Edie Herrold heard this week that Sandra Day O'Connor's husband found new love in his retirement home, memories of her own family's story came flooding out. Her father, Lloyd, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, also found love in a retirement home, while her mother...
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O'Connor says she would've stayed longer
2/4/2007: 365 words, approx. 1 pages
Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor would have preferred to stay on the Supreme Court for several more years until she was ill and "really in bad shape" but stepped down because of her ailing husband.O'Connor, 76, also says she accelerated her retirement announcement by at...
 


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Sandra Day O'Connor and Shirin Ebadi
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Describes the lives and careers of Shirin Ebadi, Iranian nobel laureate, and Sandra Day O'Connor, the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Discusses the accomplishments of each woman and details their long road to success.


 

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