Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life

By lilmarie02

  • Birth of Ruth Bader

    Joan Ruth Bader was born in Brooklyn, NY

  • Excelled and graduated from James Madison High School

    Mother instilled the love of education at early age so she dedicated herself to do so for her mom's sake. Mother also died day before graduation due to cancer.

  • Graduated from Cornell University

    Ruth graduated at the top of her class.

  • Married Martin Ginsburg

  • Gave birth to Jane Ginsburg

  • Attended Harvard Law with husband

    Experienced large amount of gender discrimination with being one of 9 females in 500 class. Also faced challenges of raising a child and taking care of sick husband.

  • Became first female to be on Harvard Law Review

  • Graduated from Columbia Law School

    Ruth was first in her class.

  • Worked as clerk for US District Judge Palmieri

    Received a lot of employer gender discrimination before she was offered this job.
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    Joined the Columbia project on International Civil Procedure

  • Became professor at Rutgers University of Law

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    Directed the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union

  • Became professor at Columibia

    Ruth was also the first female to win tenure there.

  • Frontiero vs. Richardson

    One example of the cases Ruth argued for in the Supreme Court: Sharron Frontiero, a lieutenant in the United States Air Force, sought a dependent's allowance for her husband.

  • Weineburger vs. Wiesenfield

    Another case Ruth argued for: Stephen Wiesenfield wished to get Social Security benefits from his wife Paula since her salary was the principle income of the couple. In 1972, his wife died in childbirth, which left Wiesenfeld with the care of their newborn son. Wiesenfeld applied for social security benefits for himself and his son, and was told that his son could receive them but that he could not.

  • Appointed to US District Court of Appeals for DC by Jimmy Carter

  • Appointed to US Supreme Court

  • Wrote Majority opinion in US vs. VA

    It was ruled that qualified women could not be denied admission to Virginia Military Institute.

  • Death