SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR

Associate Justice (1981 - 2006)

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APPOINTED BY

Ronald Reagan

PRECEDED BY

Potter Stewart

BIRTHPLACE

Texas

SWORN IN

September 25, 1981

SUCCEEDED BY

Samuel Alito

LAW SCHOOL

Stanford

Credit: U.S. National Archives

“Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.”

— Justice Sandra Day O’Connor

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