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Born to Celia and Nathan Bader in Brooklyn, New York. She grew up in a low-income, working-class neighborhood.
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1948 Ruth Bader delivers a sermon as camp Rabbi at the age of 15, at Che-Na-Wah camp in Minerva, N.Y. Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Ruth meets Marty while they were both undergrads at Cornell University. Ruth and Marty were married weeks after graduation from Cornell. The wedding was held at his parents' home on Long Island, New York. (Apatoff, 2023)
RBG graduated from Cornell University with a BA in government, she finished 1st in her class. (Biography, 2021)
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Their first child Jane C. Ginsburg is born.
Martin is drafted into the Army stationed at Artillery Village in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. (Time, 2015)
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Out of a class of 500 students, Ginsburg was one of the only nine women. Undeniably gifted at legal research and debate, Ginsburg became the first woman to serve at the Harvard Law Review legal journal. (Boone, 2024) -
Graduated 1st in her class from New Yorks Columbia Law School. She was elected to the school's law review. She transferred to Columbia from Harvard for her last year. This decision came after Martins recovery from cancer, his graduation and his employment at a New York Law firm. (Achievement, 2023)
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After not being able to find a job even though she graduated top of her class she was finally offered a position as law clerk for Judge Edmund G. Palmieri of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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Son James Steven Ginsburg Born.
Image is form when he is older.
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The first equal rights case she brought before the Supreme Court. Reed vs. Reed, which argued that women should be equally considered as executors of estates and won. (People, 2023)
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Schools' 1st tenured female professor
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"1980: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s first term as a D.C. Circuit judge. Appointed by President Jimmy Carter, Ginsburg was expected to be a liberal firebrand but ultimately demonstrated the caution of a common-law constitutionalist." Caption and picture https://achievement.org/achiever/ruth-bader-ginsburg/ -
She was appointed to this position by President Carter.
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Appointed by President Clinton
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. From left to right stand President Bill Clinton, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Martin Ginsburg, and Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Image from the Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States. -
Justice Ginsburg wrote her first majority opinion 7-1 as a Supreme Court justice on United States v. Virginia, in which the court struck down the Virginia Military Institute’s male-only admissions policy. (LDF, 2020) Image link: https://www.canterburyclassicsbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/640px-Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg_2016_portrait_cropped.jpg -
Ginsburg joined the majority opinion in Stenberg v. Carhart, striking down a Nebraska law banning so-called “partial birth” abortions. (Achievement, 2023)
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They had been married for 56 years. The day after his death she went back to work. This photo was taken in 2003 at a Columbia law school event. Image: https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/7926f4e/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1185x811+0+0/resize/1760x1204!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2019%2F07%2F26%2Fap_03091203216_custom-1503efdbba3370980acb6ac5c09ef637981e677b.jpg -
Obergefell v. Hodgesthat made same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states. Ginsburg was instrumental in the decision since she had over the years officiated same-sex marriages. (Achievement, 2020)
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RBG passed away at age 87 in Washington D.C., due to metastatic pancreatic cancer. She had fought and won against colon cancer, pancreatic cancer and lung cancer previously all without missing a day of work.
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