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Sandra Day O'Connor was born on March 26, 1930 in El Paso, Texas
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Sandra Day O'Connor married John Jay O'Connor the Third in 1952.
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In 1974, she took on a different challenge. O’Connor ran for the position of judge in the Maricopa County Superior Court.
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O'Connor becomes Arizona Judge
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O'Connor was nominated as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court to replace Potter Stewart from the president Ronald Reagan.
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Sandra got voted as female jurist from a vote of 99-0.
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This decision upheld as constitutional state restrictions on second trimester abortions that are not necessary to protect maternal health. Similar to the original trimester requirements in Roe v. Wade.
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Roe v. Wade (1989) was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion.
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O'Connor joined the majority in holding that New Jersey violated the Boy Scouts' freedom of association by prohibiting it from selecting its troop leaders on the basis of sexual orientation.
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O'Connor wrote an opinion about how that state laws that prohibited homosexual sodomy, but not heterosexual sodomy, violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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After 24 years of work on the supreme court she announced her retirement when she was seventy-four.
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On August 12, 2009, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor of the United States, by President Barack Obama