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Born
Sandra Day O'Connor was born on March 26, 1930 in El Paso, Texas -
Marries her husband
Sandra Day O'Connor married John Jay O'Connor the Third in 1952. -
n 1974, she took on a different challenge. O’Connor ran for the position of judge in the Maricopa County Superior Court.
In 1974, she took on a different challenge. O’Connor ran for the position of judge in the Maricopa County Superior Court. -
Governer raises her to the Arizona Court of Appeals
O'Connor becomes Arizona Judge -
President Ronald Reagan says O'Connor is Associate Justice
O'Connor was nominated as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court to replace Potter Stewart from the president Ronald Reagan. -
First Female justice
Sandra got voted as female jurist from a vote of 99-0. -
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services,
This decision upheld as constitutional state restrictions on second trimester abortions that are not necessary to protect maternal health. Similar to the original trimester requirements in Roe v. Wade. -
Roe v. Wade
Roe v. Wade (1989) was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. -
Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000)
O'Connor joined the majority in holding that New Jersey violated the Boy Scouts' freedom of association by prohibiting it from selecting its troop leaders on the basis of sexual orientation. -
Lawrence v. Texas, (2003)
O'Connor wrote an opinion about how that state laws that prohibited homosexual sodomy, but not heterosexual sodomy, violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
Retired from working for 24 years
After 24 years of work on the supreme court she announced her retirement when she was seventy-four. -
Awarded Highest Civilian Honor by Obama
On August 12, 2009, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor of the United States, by President Barack Obama