A private funeral service for retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was held Friday, Dec. 22, in Phoenix. O’Connor, who was the first woman appointed to the nation’s high court, was memorialized earlier this week at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.She was raised on a rural Arizona ranch near the border with New Mexico. And that’s where she’ll return,
Sandra Day O’Connor, the nation’s first female United States Supreme Court justice, has died at age 93, the Associated Press confirmed Friday morning. The court says she died in Phoenix on Friday, of complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness.