He was given access to O’Connor’s personal papers, and he has written a warm, intimate, and highly readable account of her life. The first female to sit on the highest court of the land, Justice O’Connor. Today is the 40th anniversary of Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s nomination to the Supreme Court. The author, Evan Thomas, is a veteran journalist and biographer. This month, in the spirit of our Core Document volume Gender and Equality, we are highlighting women’s achievements in American history. Casey, OConnor joined with four other justices to uphold the controversial 1973 Roe v. In 1981, she was the first woman named to the United States Supreme. In 1992s Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. We will also discuss her Supreme Court role where she proved to be a moderate in a closely divided court who cast the deciding vote on controversial cases involving race, gender, and reproductive rights. Sandra Day OConnor is one of the most influential- and controversial- women of today.
We will discuss O'Connor’s impact as a wife, mother, country club Republican, a politician who used her connections to secure an appointment to a vacancy in the Arizona state senate. Sandra Day OConnor has been the deciding vote in many important Supreme Court decisions affecting civil rights, environmental protection, personal privacy.
She was a top graduate of Stanford Law School who was surprised to find that law firms did not hire women. Born in 1930, she was the daughter of a hard-bitten Arizona rancher who hated FDR and tested his daughter’s suitors by serving them bull’s testicles for dinner. We will use First: Sandra Day O’Connor by Evan Thomas (Random House, 2019) as our text. In this study group, we will dive into the remarkable life story of Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman appointed as a Supreme Court Justice.
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