Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born on March 15, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York City. Her father Nathan was a furrier, and Celia, her mother, had a strong passion for reading books. Ruth had an older sister, Marilyn that died of meningitis at age 8, when Ruth was 14 months old. She attended James Madison High School, where she was a cheerleader, and played the cello. After graduating from High School, she finished in the top of her class in grammar, and later on, she went to Cornell University, earning her bachelor’s in government. In 1954 she married Martin, now a professor of tax law in which they had the first child, Jane, and went together to Harvard Law School. At Harvard Ruth learned to balance her life as a mother and as a law student. In her class there were only 8 females of 500 people, everybody else were male, it was a hostile environment male-dominated …show more content…
She hardly slept 3 or 4 hours, and did it for almost 1 year, so that her husband could graduate from Harvard. When Martin Recovered, he graduated from law school, and accepted a position at a New York Law Firm. To join her husband in N.Y. Ginsburg transferred to Columbia Law School and graduated first in her class as a lawyer in 1959. And something else arises.
Despite her having good academic record, she continued to see her gender discrimination while seeking for employment after graduation, and this is when the rights for women changed for the greater good because Ruth believed that the law was blind about the gender rights and men and women were entitled to equal rights, so she had a tool at the palm of her hand, and that tool was the studies taken at Harvard where she graduated as a lawyer, and that made her powerful enough to solve the conflicts
Sonia Sotomayor was born on June 25, 1954 , now in day she is 61 years old. She attended Yale Law School and graduated in the year 1980. She became one of the many U.S. Distract Court Judges in 1992. Then later on in her life (1998) she became a part of the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals. But , what Sonia is most known for is for being the first latinathat is in the Supreme Court Justice in the U.S. in the year 2009. The person who actually nominanted Sonia was President Barack Obama so that she could be part of the Supreme Court Justice. Sonia is making a yearly salary of 1.7 million dollars to 10.3 million dollars. She also has a book which is called My Beloved World. These are some facts on Sonia Sotomayor .
Parties: Plaintiff: Howard I. Ginsburg, as Administrator of the Estate of Bradley Marc Ginsburg, Defendants: City of Ithaca and Cornell University.
She worked as assistant district attorney right out of Yale until 1984, when she opened her own practice. President George H. W. Bush nominated her to the U.S. District Court for the southern District of New York in 1991and confirmation followed in 1992. In 1997, President Bill Clinton nominated her to the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second District. She was confirmed in 1998. There she heard appeals in more than 3000 cases and wrote about380 opinions.
made it possible for herself to go to college and get a law degree. "I want to go the
Barbara Jordan was born on February 21, 1936 in Houston Texas. She was the youngest child of three. Her father Benjamin Jordan was a Baptist minister and warehouse clerk. Her mother, Arlyne was a maid, housewife and church teacher. Jordan went to college at the University of Texas. She graduated from college being one out of two African American women in her class. Jordan passed away from viral pneumonia on January 17, 1996. Barbara Jordan is a modern here because she is a brave woman, she overcame racism, she is also a civil rights activist.
college. Even though she might have grown up with a hard life, she fought for different ways to
Sotomayor to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. That same year, Ms. Sotomayor began teaching at New York University and at Columbia Law School in 1999.
Lee first studied at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama from 1944 to 1945. She then pursued a law degree at the University of Alabama from 1945 to 1949, spending one year abroad at Oxford University in England. She worked as a reservation clerk for Eastern Airlines in New York City until the late 1950s,
Sandra Day O 'Connor was the first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. A Republican, she was considered a moderate conservative and served for 24 years. Born on March 26, 1930, in El Paso, Texas, Sandra Day O 'Connor spent part of her youth on her family 's Arizona ranch. She graduated from Stanford University in 1950 with a bachelor’s degree in economics, O’Connor attended the university’s law school and received her degree in 1952, graduating third in her class. As opportunities for women lawyers were limited at the time she had to work without pay at a county attorney in California San Mateo region. From 1954-57, O 'Connor moved overseas and served as a civilian lawyer for the Quartermaster Masker Center in Frankfurt, Germany. She returned home in 1958 and settled in Arizona. There she worked at a private practice before returning to public service, acting as the state 's assistant attorney general from 1965-69. In 1969, O 'Connor
After high school, O'Connor went to Stanford University where she majored in economics. She chose economics originally with the goal of applying that knowledge towards the operation of a ranch of her own or even the Lazy-B Ranch. A legal dispute over her family's ranch, however, stirred her interest in law and O'Connor decided to enroll at Stanford Law School after receiving her baccalaureates degree magna cum laude in 1950.It
My hero is Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and I would choose to talk with her because I admire Ruth’s strength and perseverance (in that she continued to work even when faced with cancer, familial illness, and hardship) and her ability to rise above discrimination and help make the world a better place. Ruth’s ability to make friends with individuals who have very different opinions than her (like her noted friendship with Justice Antonin Scalia) and her cultivation of positive female friendships (rather than pitting herself against other women) is a model for me, and many other women. Also, I admire Ruth’s devotion to her passions, like the law, opera, and fine cooking. I would ask Ruth how she found and continues to cultivate those passions, because
protest around the world. Maxine Waters is doing her best to find us a new president that will be for all the people.
Women’s equality has made huge advancements in the United States in the past decade. One of the most influential persons to the movement has been a woman named Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ruth faced gender discrimination many times throughout her career and worked hard to ensure that discrimination based on a person’s gender would be eliminated for future generations. Ginsburg not only worked to fight for women’s equality but fought for the rights of men, as well, in order to show that equality was a human right’s issue and not just a problem that women faced. Though she faced hardships and discrimination, Ruth never stopped working and thanks to her equality is a much closer reality than it was fifty years ago. When Ruth first
For the first time in her life, Zora Neale Hurston found a sense of accomplishment. Not only did she get her high school diploma, but she also went to college. During a time of racial oppression and Americans returning from World War I she managed to maintain various jobs to pay for her education. Morgan Academy was just the beginning of her extensive education. Howard University and Barnard College are where she obtained her degrees.
Women have demonstrated that they possess the academic capability to go through law school. For example Clara Brett Martin, the first woman to become a lawyer , had essentially paved the way for the following generations to be accepted into the law profession, however, many of the barriers that she had to face are still in existence, starting with the male attitudes towards women lawyers to hiring discriminatory practices in firms and general cultural attitudes towards the role of women lawyer.