This article is about a legal dispute over her family’s ranch stirred her interest in law and that caused her to enroll into Stanford Law school in 1950. It only took her two years to graduate. Just because she was a woman no law firm would hire her so she ended up becoming deputy attorney for San Mateo, California. Her husband was drafted into the US army in 1953 so the Connors had to live in Germany and she was working as a civilian lawyer for the army. In 1957 the moved back to Phoenix, Arizona where they had three children. She then started a private law firm. In 1965 she became an assistant attorney genera for Arizona. In 1969 she was appointed to the Arizona State Senate because of a vacant seat. In his 1980 presidential campaign, Reagan had promised to appoint a woman to the high court at one of his earliest opportunities, and he chose O'Connor, out of a group of some two dozen male and female candidates, to be his first appointee to the high court.
Friday, November 21, 2008
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"O'Connor takes seat on Supreme Court." This Day In History. History.com. 16 Oct. 2008 .
This article is about a legal dispute over her family’s ranch stirred her interest in law and that caused her to enroll into Stanford Law school in 1950. It only took her two years to graduate. Just because she was a woman no law firm would hire her so she ended up becoming deputy attorney for San Mateo, California. Her husband was drafted into the US army in 1953 so the Connors had to live in Germany and she was working as a civilian lawyer for the army. In 1957 the moved back to Phoenix, Arizona where they had three children. She then started a private law firm. In 1965 she became an assistant attorney genera for Arizona. In 1969 she was appointed to the Arizona State Senate because of a vacant seat. In his 1980 presidential campaign, Reagan had promised to appoint a woman to the high court at one of his earliest opportunities, and he chose O'Connor, out of a group of some two dozen male and female candidates, to be his first appointee to the high court.
This article is about a legal dispute over her family’s ranch stirred her interest in law and that caused her to enroll into Stanford Law school in 1950. It only took her two years to graduate. Just because she was a woman no law firm would hire her so she ended up becoming deputy attorney for San Mateo, California. Her husband was drafted into the US army in 1953 so the Connors had to live in Germany and she was working as a civilian lawyer for the army. In 1957 the moved back to Phoenix, Arizona where they had three children. She then started a private law firm. In 1965 she became an assistant attorney genera for Arizona. In 1969 she was appointed to the Arizona State Senate because of a vacant seat. In his 1980 presidential campaign, Reagan had promised to appoint a woman to the high court at one of his earliest opportunities, and he chose O'Connor, out of a group of some two dozen male and female candidates, to be his first appointee to the high court.
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