Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died from complications of pancreatic cancer at her home in Washington, D.C. at age 87. She had previously survived colon cancer and an earlier bout with pancreatic cancer.
Joan Ruth Bader was born in the New York borough of Brooklyn to Nathan Bader and the former Celia Amster. Her father was a Jewish immigrant from Odessa, Ukraine in the Russian Empire. Her mother was born in New York to Austrian Jewish parents. When Joan Bader was in elementary school, there were several other girls in her class named Joan, so Celia suggested that teachers call Joan by her middle name. Ruth Bader graduated from James Madison High School in Brooklyn and Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. At Cornell, she met Martin Ginsburg, and married him after she graduated.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg enrolled at Harvard Law School in 1956, one of nine women in a class with about 500 men. When Martin took a job in New York City, she transferred to Columbia Law School. She graduated in 1959, tying for first in her class. She was on the law reviews of both schools, the first woman to do so at two major law schools.
Ginsburg was turned down when she applied for a clerkship under Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, but was hired by District Court Judge Edmund Palmieri, holding the job for two years. She was a research associate and an associate director for the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure between 1961 and 1963. She was a law professor at Rutgers Law School from 1963 to 1972. She became the general counsel for the ACLU's Women's Rights project in 1973, after co-founding it a year earlier. She later became its director and worked on the project until 1980, when President Jimmy Carter nominated her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She was a judge on this court until 1993, when President Bill Clinton nominated her to the Supreme Court.
Ginsburg was predeceased by her husband Martin in 2010. I would have to say that she also outlived numerous rumors that she had already died or would step down from the court. She is survived by her two children Jane and James.
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