Sandra Day O’Connor Fast Facts
Personal
Birth place: El Paso, Texas
Birth name: Sandra Day
Mother: Ada Mae (Wilkey), rancher
Marriage: John Jay O’Connor III (1952-2009, his death)
Children: Scott, Brian and Jay
Education: Stanford University, B.A. in Economics, 1950, graduated magna cum laude; Stanford Law School, LL.B, 1952
Other Facts
Completed law school in two years.
A proponent of judicial restraint. At her confirmation hearings, she said, “Judges are not only not authorized to engage in executive or legislative functions, they are also ill-equipped to do so.”
Timeline
1952-1953 – County deputy attorney in San Mateo, California.
1955-1957- Works as a civilian lawyer for the Quartermaster Corps in Germany, while her husband serves with the Army’s Judge Advocate General Corps.