-
RBG was born as Joan Ruth Bader to Cecelia Bader and Nathan Bader in New York, New York. -
Ginsburg got her undergraduate degree from Cornell, she graduated at the top of her class -
at age 21, ginsburg was working for social security, when she was demoted for becoming pregnant with her daughter. -
Ginsburg married her husband, Martin D. Ginsburg -
Ginsburg had her daughter Jane, who would become an attorney -
Ginsburg graduated at the top of her class from the law school at Columbia College. -
Ginsburg was denied a job as a court clerk because she was a woman -
Ginsburg starts teaching law at Rutgers, she will do this for nine years -
Ginsburg had her second child, james -
Ginsburg co-founded the Women's Rights Law Reporter, which was a law journal that focused on women's rights. It was the first of its kind. -
Ginsburg's final case as an attorney was a case focusing on the fact that jury duty should not be voluntary for women -
Bill Clinton nominated Ginsburg, and she was the second female supreme court justice ever -
Gonzalez V. Carhart was a law about partial birth abortion, which Ginsburg thought should be allowed -
in the case Safford Unified School District v. Redding, Ginsburg influenced the justices in their decision on the case, so that the decision was 8-1 in favor of the victim -
Ginsburg had battled pancreatic cancer for a long time, and succumbed to complications