Shana Knizhnik's Justice Ginsburg

First and foremost, the fight for women’s rights is something that has occurred throughout time not only in the United States, but in every part of the world. When it comes to the United States, one cannot deny that it was an important historical event. “The struggle for women’s suffrage in the United States had occupied better part of a century” (Source 1). Truly a struggle, for it was not acknowledged by men in the past, primarily white man who had full rights in the nation. Susan B. Anthony was an important leading figure of the Suffrage Movement and contributed to the Suffrage Movement.

During Ruth’s second year of law school, Martin was diagnosed with cancer and he underwent surgery and weeks of radiation. Throughout this time, Ruth kept him up to date on all of his work by arranging note takers for all of his classes as well as typing his papers while he dictated them to her (Kay, 2004). She did all of this while still maintaining her grades and her studies. Ruth felt she had no other alternative than to make sure she was top in her class in order to attain a suitable job. After losing her mother at a young age, she feared that her husband would also die of cancer and she would become the sole provider of their daughter (Ward, 2010). By the time Martin was healthy enough to work again and was fully in remission, Ruth had fallen in love with her work and would not give it up.

Sonia Sotomayor was born in The Bronx, New York City, in June 1954. Her father died when she was nine, and her mother raised her. After high school graduation, she entered Princeton University where she in 1976 graduated Summa Cum Laude and in 1979 received her J. D. from Yale Law School.

It was January 11, 1885 and in Moorestown, New Jersey what I would call a rook in the chess game of women’s suffrage, was born. It’s hard to believe that such an overwhelming infatuation in equality could be so deeply immersed in a woman only twenty-seven years of age. However, when you know that this person is none other than Alice Paul, believing gets easier. It was the defiance caged up inside this fire-cracker of a woman that led her steadily through the great battle of woman's suffrage.

Thomas became in many ways an opposite to the first female Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, nominated by Reagan because of urging of the court to “rethink vast areas of the law while O’Connor wanted to decide cases narrowly, one by one”. (pg.123-124). O’Connor pulled further also typically wrote a separate opinion of her own and refused to join Thomas even when they were on the same side of a decision.

Throughout history many U.S. Supreme Court Justices have served for numerous years on the Supreme court making final decisions on diverse cases that have created long lasting impacts. The current supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and former justice Sandra Day O’Connor have not only made an impact but are proof that women are equal to men when it comes to court room decisions. Throughout the essay I will explain the background of the justice, the president who appointed them, and the accomplishments made on the Supreme Court.

Bertha Wilson was a remarkable woman who changed the face of the Supreme Court of Canada forever. She was the first woman appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court of Canada, and the first female partner in a major law firm. Even though she wasn’t a Chief Justice, it was a huge accomplishment for a woman to be a Puisne Justice. Bertha Wilson was chosen for my Heritage Fair topic because Bertha worked hard even when she knew that no woman had been where she had been before. This essay will explain different times in Bertha’s life and how she made her mark in the books of Great Canadian Women.

Have you ever wondered which 21st century women are important and are influencing today’s world. There are many women doing this but one in particular is Jackie Joyner-Kersee. In this essay, I will talk about Jackie and how influential she is, what she has done for the society, what her history is/how long she has been around, and her qualities that make her unique. Jackie Joyner-Kersee is influential, unique, has been around for a while, and has done a lot for her society.

Margaret Marshall the chief Juice of the supreme Judicial Court argues marriage is a vital institution, the commitment should be between two people who offer mutual support to children, and to bring stability to our society. Marriage provides legal, financial, and social benefits. Which leads to legal, social, and financial obligations. The department of health states the purpose of marriage is to have children, the state is only interested if children are involved. She believes the court is downgrading marriage gay marriage for no rational reason. The responses from the court could prevent children with homosexual parents from enjoying a stable family structure; it does not make sense to penalize children because of parent’s sexual orientation. Marshall provides three rational reasons that the Massachusetts government agreed on, but does not provide a sensible foundation. The three reasons provided are guaranteeing the best setting for child bearing, providing a favorable setting for procreation, but preserving the unusual state and private financial resources. The law on public marriage does not give rights to homosexual couples over heterosexual, or other ways of bearing couples. The point is most heterosexuals couples do not produce off spring, and fertility is not required to get married. The second reason presented by Marshalls is there is not proof that shows homosexual couples are better at raising children, but there is a possibility that heterosexual couples are

I think Belva Ann Lockwood’s single greatest achievement is how she lobbied congress herself to be able to appear in front of the Supreme Court. As Belva Ann Lockwood’s law business grew, she realized how much of an injustice it was that women could not appear in front of the Supreme Court which inclined her to do something about. When she first attempted to appear in front of me she was denied, and so instead of giving up she decided to take matters into her own hands. She chose to lobby congress and was successful, as congress passed a body removing some the handicaps female lawyers faced. Then on March 3rd, 1879 she became the first woman to be admitted to the Supreme Court. A year later she had her first case in front of the Supreme Court

    The feminism movement throughout the 1900’s showed much progression to equality in western society. It was this pivotal century that set the ball rolling for important women’s rights, including women’s suffrage in 1920, John F. Kennedy passing the Equal Pay Act in 1963, and even sparked revolutionary women such as Amelia Earhart, one of the first female pilots. But like all new changes there was room for improvement. This is where great speakers such as journalist Gloria Steinem stepped in. On May 6, 1970, Steinem spoke before Congress on the equal rights amendment as a supporter for female equality. She goes on to describe that still into the 1970’s that women were being socially discriminated

During the late nineteenth-century, women went to court to continue to secure their rights to participate in public life: to vote, to be a justice of the peace, to be a notary public, to serve as school district directors, school committee officers, school officers, and prosecuting attorneys, an of course to practice law (Drachman, 1998).

In this paper, I will discuss a number of topics regarding woman and the Supreme Court from historical precedents to objective research to the importance of female judges and Justices and finally to the possibilities of the future. Each of these steps is vital to fully understanding how we got to our country’s current place in female jurisprudence and creating future opportunities for women both on the Supreme Court and in all other levels of the judicial system across the United States.

Elena Kagan was born on April 28, 1960, in New York City. She the daughter of an elementary school teacher, and a housing attorney; this where her interest for academic and law first developed. As an adolescent Elena Kagan attended Hunter College High School, and then later on attended Princeton University in 1977. While at Princeton she majored in History and graduated summa cum laude in 1981, she then attended Worchester College in Oxford, England where she earned her master’s degree in philosophy in 1983. After graduating form Worchester College in Oxford, England, she attended Harvard Law School where she graduated magna cum laude in 1986. Justice Kagan has accomplished a vast amount of achievements academically, after graduating law school

Sojourner Truth’s words in her speech, “Ain’t I a Woman?” served as an anthem for women everywhere during her time. Truth struggled with not only racial injustice but also gender inequality that made her less than a person, and second to men in society. In her speech, she warned men of “the upside down” world against the power of women where “together, [women] ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!” Today, America proudly stands thinking that Truth’s uneasiness of gender inequality was put to rest. Oppression for women, however, continues to exist American literature has successfully captured and exposed shifts in attitude towards women and their roles throughout American history.