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Birth
Joan Ruth Bader was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on March 15, 1933. -
Graduation
On June 23, 1954, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Government from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
During her university years, she meets who would end up being her husband, Martin D. Ginsburg. They both got married a month after Ruth's graduation. -
Back to university.
In the fall of 1956, Ruth Bader Ginsburg enrolled at Harvard Law School, where she was one of 9 women in a class of about 500 men.
The Dean of Law denied Ginsburg's request to complete her junior year to earn a law degree from Harvard; so Ginsburg transferred to Columbia and became the 1st woman to be in 2 major law journals.
In 1959, he earned his law degree from Columbia tying for first in his class. -
Beginning of your legal career
Early in her career, Ginsburg found it difficult to find employment. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter turned down Ginsburg for an internship because of her gender, despite a strong recommendation from a Harvard Law School professor.
Later that year, Ginsburg began her clerkship for Judge Edmund L. Palmieri of the Southern District Court of New York and held the position for 2 years on the recommendation of and a Columbia law professor. -
Teaching stage
Ginsburg's first teaching position was at Rutgers Law School in 1963. She was paid less than her male colleagues because, she was told, "your husband has a very good job." When Ginsburg entered the academy, she was one of fewer than twenty law professors in the United States. She was a professor of law at Rutgers from 1963 to 1972. -
Disseminator and teacher
In 1970, she co-founded the Women's Rights Law Reporter, the first law journal in the US to focus exclusively on women's rights.
From 1972 to 1980, she taught at Columbia Law School, where she became the first female tenure and co-authored the law school's first casebook on sex discrimination. -
Law practice
In 1972, Ginsburg co-founded the Women's Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and in 1973 she became the Project's general counsel. Since then, he has achieved great advances in terms of discrimination based on gender. -
Golden season
In 1980 she was appointed member of the Federal Court. During her time as a judge, Ginsburg often found consensus with her colleagues, including conservatives. His service ended on August 9, 1993, due to his elevation to the Supreme Court of the United States. President Bill Clinton nominated Ginsburg as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on June 22, 1993. He was a senior member on the Supreme Court from 1993 to 2020. -
Death
Ginsburg died from complications of pancreatic cancer on September 18, 2020, at age 87.