Sandra Day O'Connor, who broke the glass ceiling and became the first woman to hold a seat on the Supreme Court, died Friday morning. She was 93 years old.The Supreme Court said O'Connor died from "complications related to advanced dementia, probably Alzheimer’s, and a respiratory illness." O'Connor.
Retired US Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman appointed to the nation's highest court and a noted pragmatist in an age of deep division, died Friday."As a young cowgirl from the Arizona desert, I never could have imagined that one day I would become the first woman justice on the US Supreme Court."