Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (born March 15, 1933) is a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.

She was born Joan Ruth Bader in Brooklyn, New York. In 1954 she married Martin D. Ginsburg[?], a professor of law at Georgetown University. She attended Harvard Law School from 1956 to 1958, then Harvard Law Review; Columbia Law School, LL.B. (J.D.) 1959, Columbia Law Review. She was a Kent Scholar[?].

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and took that office on June 30, 1980. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and took office on August 10, 1993.