Sandra Day O’Connor: A Female Pioneer on the Supreme Court

SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR, born in 1930, was the 102nd U.S. Supreme Court justice and the very first female justice on the Supreme Court. She served on the court for 25 years and, on a divided court, she was often the swing vote. She became one of the most powerful people in Washington, a conservative — but an independent thinker, on abortion and many other issues. O’Connor was deeply formed by her childhood as Sandra Day, a cowgirl on “The Lazy B,” a 198,000-acre cattle ranch near Duncan, Arizona. The first thing that Sandra wanted to be in life was a cattle rancher. She learned to brand cattle and to hunt jackrabbits with a rifle. The ranch never got more than 10 inches of rain a year, most of which fell on summer afternoons. Rain was a cause for celebration. <a href="https://medium.com/@andrewszanton/sandra-day-oconnor-a-female-pioneer-on-the-supreme-court-65af1b2faab4">Read More</a>