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    graduated from Cornell university

    she finished first in her class
  • got married

    married a law student named Martin d Ginsburg
  • first child

    Martin and ruth had their first child
  • Martin was drafted

    Martin was drafted shortly after the birth of their first child Jane
  • Martin ginsburg is diagnosed with testicular cancer

    while ruth was in college and mothering her child Martin was diagnosed with cancer and went through lots of treatment. while he was being treated ruth attended both his and her classes taking notes for him
  • college and a mother

    after Martin was discharged in 1956 ruth Martin and Jane moved to Harvard where ruth enrolled as a law student
  • ruth graduates from Harvard

    ruth graduated first in her class at Harvard university
  • became a teacher

    after graduating from Harvard ruth became a teacher at Rutgers and Columbia, becoming their first tutored female teacher
  • director of the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union

    in the 70s ruth was a director for the women's rights project of the American civil rights
  • appointed to court of appeals

    jimmy Carter appoints ruth to court of appeals for District of Columbia
  • appointed to us Supreme Court

    bill Clinton appoints ruth to us Supreme Court
  • United States v. Virginia

    ruth wrote us vs Virginia
  • won the American Bar Association’s Thurgood Marshall Award

  • Martin dies

    Martin died of cancer, ruth said he was her biggest supporter and the only man she dated that cared that she had a brain
  • ruth dies

    ruth died from complications to her pancreatic cancer