Sandra Day O'Connor | Wikipedia audio article
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Sandra Day O'Connor
00:01:45 1 Early life and education
00:03:49 2 Early career and marriage
00:06:03 3 Supreme Court career
00:06:13 3.1 Appointment
00:09:22 3.2 Supreme Court jurisprudence
00:09:32 3.2.1 Voting record and deciding votes
00:14:29 3.2.2 First Amendment
00:16:25 3.2.3 Fourth Amendment
00:17:29 3.2.4 Cases involving race
00:19:41 3.2.5 Abortion
00:22:00 3.2.6 Foreign law
00:24:23 3.2.7 Commentary and analysis
00:25:06 3.3 Response to being first woman on the Supreme Court
00:26:12 3.4 Other activities while serving on the Court
00:26:42 4 Retirement
00:30:15 5 Post–Supreme Court career
00:30:25 5.1 Commentary
00:33:54 5.2 Activities and memberships
00:36:08 5.2.1 Teaching
00:36:37 5.2.2 Publishing
00:36:52 5.2.3 Public speaking engagements
00:37:44 5.2.4 Non-profits and philanthropic activity
00:39:52 6 Personal life
00:40:51 7 Legacy and awards
00:41:00 8 See also
00:41:09 9 Notes
00:41:18 9.1 Bibliography
00:41:27 10 Further reading
00:41:54 11 External links
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Sandra Day O'Connor (born March 26, 1930) is a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who served from her appointment in 1981 by Ronald Reagan until her retirement in 2006. She was the first woman to serve on the Court.Prior to O'Connor's tenure on the Court, she was an elected official and judge in Arizona serving as the first female Majority Leader of a state senate as the Republican leader in the Arizona Senate. Upon her nomination to the Court, O'Connor was confirmed unanimously by the Senate. On July 1, 2005, she announced her intention to retire effective upon the confirmation of a successor. Samuel Alito was nominated to take her seat in October 2005, and joined the Court on January 31, 2006.
Considered a federalist and a moderate Republican, O'Connor tended to approach each case narrowly without arguing for sweeping precedents. She most frequently sided with the Court's conservative bloc, although in the latter years of her tenure, she was regarded as having the swing opinion in many cases. She often wrote concurring opinions that limited the reach of the majority holding. Her majority opinions in landmark cases include Grutter v. Bollinger and Hamdi v. Rumsfeld. She also wrote in part the per curiam majority opinion in Bush v. Gore, and was one of three co-authors of the lead opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
From 2005 to 2012, O'Connor was Chancellor of The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg. Several publications have named her among the most powerful women in the world. On August 12, 2009, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor of the United States, by President Barack Obama.