Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Supreme Court Justice and Champion of Gender Equali

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1993 until her death. Born Joan Ruth Bader on March 15, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York City, she became the second woman and the first Jewish woman to sit on the Court.

Ginsburg graduated from Columbia Law School in 1959, tied for first in her class, and became its first tenured woman professor. In 1972 she co-founded the ACLU Women's Rights Project and argued six gender-discrimination cases before the Supreme Court, winning five. President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the D.C. Circuit in 1980, and President Bill Clinton nominated her to the Supreme Court in 1993; the Senate confirmed her 96 to 3.

On the Court she wrote the majority opinion in United States v. Virginia (1996), which opened the Virginia Military Institute to women, and her dissent in Ledbetter v. Goodyear (2007) led to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009. She was married to Martin Ginsburg for 56 years until his death in 2010, and they had two children. She survived cancer five times and died at her home in Washington, D.C., on September 18, 2020, at age 87, of complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer.

Achievements: Co-founded the ACLU Women's Rights Project (1972), argued six cases before the Supreme Court, Associate Justice (1993-2020), wrote United States v. Virginia (1996).

Birth: March 15, 1933 - Brooklyn, New York City.

Profession: Lawyer and Supreme Court justice.

Interesting Facts: Her fans nicknamed her the "Notorious R.B.G." She is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.