Sandra Day O’Connor, appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1981, was the Supreme Court’s first woman justice. A native of Arizona, she graduated with honors from Stanford University’s law school, but was turned down by law firms because of her gender — a common practice in the 1950s.
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