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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States · 1980–1993
Ruth Bader Ginsburg , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Senate voted 96–3 on the nomination on Aug 3, 1993 (Nomination Confirmed). Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton to replace retiring justice Byron White, and at the time was viewed as a moderate consensus-builder.
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Positions
- Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States1993-08-10–2020-09-18
Senate confirmation votes
- an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
103rd Congress · Nomination Confirmed96–3 · Aug 3, 1993
Education
- Cornell UniversityA.B., 1954
- Harvard Law School
- Columbia Law SchoolLL.B., 1959
Career
Legal secretary, Hon. Edmund L. Palmieri, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1959-1961; Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure, 1961-1963; research associate, 1961-1962; associate director, 1962-1963; Professor, Rutgers Law School, 1963-1972; Professor, Columbia Law School, 1972-1980; American Civil Liberties Union, 1972-1980; counsel, Women's Rights Project, 1972-1980; general counsel, 1973-1980; member, national board of directors, 1974-1980; Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, 1977-1978
Biography
Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton to replace retiring justice Byron White, and at the time was viewed as a moderate consensus-builder.
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