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Sandra
Day O'Connor |
Sandra
Day O'Connor
- Former Associate Justice of the United States
Supreme Court, was born in El Paso, Texas, March 26, 1930. She
married John
Jay
O’Connor
III in 1952 and has three sons— Scott, Brian, and Jay.
She received her B.A. and LL.B. from Stanford University. She
served
as Deputy County Attorney of San Mateo County, California from
1952–1953 and as a civilian attorney for Quartermaster
Market Center, Frankfurt, Germany from 1954–1957. From
1958–
1960, she practiced law in Maryvale, Arizona, and served as Assistant
Attorney General of Arizona from 1965–1969. She was appointed
to the Arizona State Senate in 1969 and was subsequently reelected
to two two-year terms. In 1975 she was elected Judge of the Maricopa
County Superior Court and served until 1979, when she was appointed
to the Arizona Court of Appeals. President Reagan nominated her
as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and she took
her
seat September 25, 1981. On July 1, 2005, she announced her intention
to retire effective upon the confirmation of her successor.
Resignation Letter [PDF] Justice Samuel Alito, nominated to
take her seat in October 2005, received confirmation on January
31,
2006.
O'Connor
is
currently the only Retired Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme
Court. As a Retired Supreme Court Justice (roughly equivalent
to senior status for judges of lower federal courts), Justice
O'Connor is entitled to receive a full salary, maintain a staffed
office with at least one law clerk, and to hear cases on a part-time
basis in the federal District Courts and Courts of Appeals.
In October 2006, Justice O'Connor sat as a member of panels
of the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Eighth,
and Ninth Circuits, to hear arguments in one day's cases in
each court. She will chair the Jamestown 2007 celebration at Jamestown,
Virginia which commemorates the 400th anniversary of the founding
of the Jamestown Settlement in 1607. Her appearances in Jamestown
will dovetail with her appearances and speeches as chancellor
at the nearby College of William and Mary. |
Retired Associate Justice O'Connor and her husband, John O'Connor take
a photo with
President George W. Bush after giving her resignation letter.
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