US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away at the age of 87 from complications caused by metastatic pancreatic cancer.
Let’s have a look at some lesser-known facts about the history-making jurist and feminist icon:
1. Born on March 15, 1933, Ginsburg grew up in Brooklyn, New York.
2. In the beginning of her legal career, Ginsburg faced difficulty in finding employment. In 1960, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter rejected Ginsburg for a clerkship position owing to her gender.
3. From 1961 to 1963, Ginsburg was a research associate and then an associate director of the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure.
4. In 1970, she co-founded the Women’s Rights Law Reporter, the first law journal in the United States to focus exclusively on women’s rights.
5. Ginsburg was also the co-founder of the Women’s Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
6. In the 1980s, she also taught at Columbia Law School, where she became the first tenured woman and co-authored the first law school casebook on sex discrimination.
7. She also spent a year as a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University from 1977 to 1978.
8. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where she served until her appointment to the Supreme Court.
9. Ginsburg spent a considerable part of her career as an advocate for the advancement of gender equality and women’s rights.