While Sandra Day O'Connor ultimately settled down with her Stanford Law classmate John Jay O'Connor, it wasn't for lack of proposals from 'multiple' other suitors including one who would later serve with her on the nation's highest court.
Sandra Day O Connor, the first woman ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court, died Friday in Phoenix at the age of 93. According to Supreme Court sources, the cause of death was complications of dementia. Born on March 26, 1930, in El Paso, Texas, and raised in Arizona, she is survived by her sons, Scott, Brian, and Jay; six grandchildren; and her brother, Alan. O Connor was appointed to the court in 1981 by President Ronald Reagan after working as a public attorney and serving in all three branches of government in Arizona.
By Geoffrey Huchel Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court passed away December 1, 2023, in Phoenix, Arizona from complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness. She was 93. Day O’Connor was a former attorney, earning her degree from Stanford Law School in 195
Born in El Paso, Texas in 1930, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor grew up on the Lazy B Ranch her grandfather established on a 200,000-acre expanse straddling the border between New Mexico and Arizona some 30 years before Arizona achieved statehood.