ruth bader ginsburg timeline

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  • RBG was born

  • graduated top of her class at Cornell

  • had first kid

  • continued at Harvard and her husband was diagnosed with testicular cancer

  • graduated #1 at Columbia Law

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    worked as a clerk under judge Palmieri

  • professor at Rutgers University Law School

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    she directed the influential Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union

  • Frontiero v. Richardson

  • Kahn v. Shevin

  • Edwards v. Healy

  • Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld

  • Califano v. Goldfarb

  • Duren v. Missouri

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    she served on court

  • Bill Clinton appointed her to the Supreme Court of the US

  • she wrote the majority opinion in United States v. Virginia

  • she worked with Obama to pass th very first piece of legislation he signed -- the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009

  • her husband passed away

  • ruth bader ginsburgs death