biography
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Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1933– )
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| biography:
| Judge, born in New York City, New York, USA. She studied law at Harvard and earned her JD at Columbia Law School (1959). She taught at Rutgers University Law School (1963–72) and Columbia University Law School (1972–80), and was a circuit judge on the US Court of Appeals for Washington, DC (1980–93). She led the Women's Rights Project while at Columbia and won several important cases before the Supreme Court during the 1970s. Nominated and confirmed as a justice of the Supreme Court (1993), she was the second woman (after Sandra Day O'Connor) to sit on the nation's highest bench. |
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