Remembering Sandra Day O’Connor: The First Woman on the US Supreme Court

2023-12-01 15:27:33

– The first woman on the US Supreme Court is dead

Posted today at 4:27 p.m.

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during a hearing on “Ensuring Judicial Independence Through Civics Education.” (archive photo)

AFP/KAREN DIAPER

Former American judge Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States, died Friday at the age of 93, the Court announced in a press release.

She died Friday morning in Phoenix (southwest), the institution said, specifying that she suffered from “advanced dementia, probably Alzheimer’s, and a respiratory illness.”

Appointed to the Supreme Court in 1981 by then-Republican President Ronald Reagan, she retired in 2006.

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