52 Facts About Ruth Bader

Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020.

Ruth Bader was nominated by President Bill Clinton to replace retiring justice Byron White, and at the time was generally viewed as a moderate consensus-builder.

Ruth Bader eventually became part of the liberal wing of the Court as the Court shifted to the right over time.

Ruth Bader's older sister died when she was a baby, and her mother died shortly before Ginsburg graduated from high school.

Ruth Bader earned her bachelor's degree at Cornell University and married Martin D Ginsburg, becoming a mother before starting law school at Harvard, where she was one of the few women in her class.

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Ruth Bader then became a professor at Rutgers Law School and Columbia Law School, teaching civil procedure as one of the few women in her field.

Ruth Bader advocated as a volunteer attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union and was a member of its board of directors and one of its general counsel in the 1970s.

Joan Ruth Bader was born on March 15,1933, at Beth Moses Hospital in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, the second daughter of Celia and Nathan Bader, who lived in the Flatbush neighborhood.

Ruth Bader's father was a Jewish emigrant from Odessa, Ukraine, at that time part of the Russian Empire, and her mother was born in New York to Jewish parents who came from Krakow, Poland, at that time part of Austria-Hungary.

Ruth Bader was not allowed to have a bat mitzvah ceremony because of Orthodox restrictions on women reading from the Torah, which upset her.

Ruth Bader attended James Madison High School, whose law program later dedicated a courtroom in her honor.

Ruth Bader attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and was a member of Alpha Epsilon Phi.

Ruth Bader graduated from Cornell with a Bachelor of Arts degree in government on June 23,1954.

Ruth Bader was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the highest-ranking female student in her graduating class.

Ruth Bader married Ginsburg a month after her graduation from Cornell.

At age 21, Ruth Bader Ginsburg worked for the Social Security Administration office in Oklahoma, where she was demoted after becoming pregnant with her first child.

Ruth Bader did so despite a strong recommendation from Albert Martin Sacks, who was a professor and later dean of Harvard Law School.

Ruth Bader was inspired when she observed the changes in Sweden, where women were 20 to 25 percent of all law students; one of the judges whom Ginsburg observed for her research was eight months pregnant and still working.

Ruth Bader was a professor of law at Rutgers from 1963 to 1972, teaching mainly civil procedure and receiving tenure in 1969.

Ruth Bader spent a year as a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University from 1977 to 1978.

Ruth Bader chose plaintiffs carefully, at times picking male plaintiffs to demonstrate that gender discrimination was harmful to both men and women.

Ruth Bader attained a reputation as a skilled oral advocate, and her work led directly to the end of gender discrimination in many areas of the law.

Ruth Bader argued that the statute discriminated against male survivors of workers by denying them the same protection as their female counterparts.

Ruth Bader continued to work on the ACLU's Women's Rights Project until her appointment to the Federal Bench in 1980.

Ruth Bader was interviewed by the Department of Justice to become Solicitor General, the position she most desired, but knew that she and the African-American candidate who was interviewed the same day had little chance of being appointed by Attorney General Griffin Bell.

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Ruth Bader was at the same time working hard to promote a possible judgeship for his wife.

Ruth Bader was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 18,1980, and received her commission later that day.

Ruth Bader's service ended on August 9,1993, due to her elevation to the United States Supreme Court, and she was replaced by Judge David S Tatel.

Ruth Bader was recommended to Clinton by then–US attorney general Janet Reno, after a suggestion by Utah Republican senator Orrin Hatch.

Ruth Bader was the second female and the first Jewish female justice of the Supreme Court.

Ruth Bader received her commission on August 5,1993 and took her judicial oath on August 10,1993.

Ruth Bader asserted the legislation was not aimed at protecting women's health, as Texas had said, but rather to impede women's access to abortions.

Ruth Bader rejected Roberts's assertion that suppression would not deter mistakes, contending making police pay a high price for mistakes would encourage them to take greater care.

Ruth Bader then considered the rule set in Montana v United States, which allows tribes to regulate the activities of nonmembers who have a relationship with the tribe.

Ruth Bader reasoned that "the longstanding, distinctly non-Indian character of the area and its inhabitants" and "the regulatory authority constantly exercised by New York State and its counties and towns" justified the ruling.

Ruth Bader reasoned that the dispossession of the Oneidas' land was "ancient".

Ruth Bader expressed a wish to emulate Justice Louis Brandeis's service of nearly 23years, which she achieved in April 2016.

Ruth Bader stated she had a new "model" to emulate in her former colleague, Justice John Paul Stevens, who retired at age 90 after nearly 35 years on the bench.

Ruth Bader was the third woman to administer an inaugural oath of office.

Ruth Bader did so, and due to her objection, Supreme Court bar members have since been given other choices of how to inscribe the year on their certificates.

Ruth Bader said the US was fortunate to have a constitution authored by "very wise" men but said that in the 1780s, no women were able to participate directly in the process, and slavery still existed in the US.

Ruth Bader joked that she might consider moving to New Zealand.

Ruth Bader later apologized for commenting on the presumptive Republican nominee, calling her remarks "ill advised".

Ruth Bader later apologized for her criticism calling her earlier comments "inappropriately dismissive and harsh" and noting she had not been familiar with the incident and should have declined to respond to the question.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a non-observant Jew, attributing this to gender inequality in Jewish prayer ritual and relating it to her mother's death.

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Ruth Bader said in 2014 she had a particular jabot she wore when issuing her dissents as well as another she wore when issuing majority opinions, which was a gift from her law clerks.

Ruth Bader underwent surgery followed by chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

Ruth Bader was released from a New York City hospital on February 13,2009 and returned to the bench when the Supreme Court went back into session on February 23,2009.

Ruth Bader returned to the Supreme Court on February 15,2019 to participate in a private conference with other justices in her first appearance at the Court since her cancer surgery in December 2018.

Ruth Bader reiterated her position that she "would remain a member of the Court as long as I can do the job full steam", adding that she remained fully able to do so.

Ruth Bader died on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, and according to Rabbi Richard Jacobs, "One of the themes of Rosh Hashanah suggest that very righteous people would die at the very end of the year because they were needed until the very end".

Ruth Bader was the first woman and first Jew to lie in state therein.