During a crucial period in American law when abortion, affirmative action, sex discrimination and voting rights were on the docket she was the most powerful woman in the country.
Sandra Day O Connor, the first woman to serve as a justice on the US Supreme Court, wielded enormous influence as the key centrist on a sharply divided bench, where she often displayed a preference for pragmatism over ideology.
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