RBG timeline-sydney c

  • RBG is born

  • RBG college graduation

    RBG graduated from Cornell University at the top of her class
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    RBG attends Harvard law

    While attending she overcame gender based discrimination, maintained her spot as the top of her class and was the first female member of the Harvard law review
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    RBG attends and graduates from Columbia law

    Serves on Columbia law review and graduates at the top of her class
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    RBG serves as a clerk under Judge Palmieri

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    Worked as a professor at Rutgers university law school

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    RBG Directs the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union

    Fought against gender discrimination and won six landmark cases before the supreme court
  • RBG leaves her job as a professor at Rutgers law and accepts a job as a professor at Columbia law

    First female professor at Columbia law to earn tenure.
  • RBG argued the case of Frontiero v. Richardson

  • RBG argued the case of Kahn v. Shevin

  • RBG argued the case of Edwards v. Healy

  • RBG argued the case of Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld

  • RBG argued the case of Califano v. Goldfarb

  • RBG argued the case of Duren v. Missouri

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    RBG serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of columbia

    appointed by Jimmy Carter
  • RBG wrote the majority opinion in U.S v. Virginia

    this then prevented women from being denied admission into the Virginia Military Institute
  • RBG works with President Barack Obama to pass the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009

  • RBG passes away