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First Sandra Day O'Connor

Evan Thomas

NEW YORK TIMES She was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were expected to be homemakers, she set her sights on Stanford University. When she graduated near the top of her law school class in 1952, no firm would even interview her. But Sandra Day...

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It was mentioned as one of the four Supreme Court justice biographies Joan Biskupic had written, which sparked her interest in the life of Antonin Scalia from research in Reagan files.

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You've written about Sandra Day O'Connor and Antonin Scalia and Sonia Sotomayor.

— Episode: Contempt & The Court (with Joan Biskupic...

Episode: Contempt & The Court (with Joan Biskupic)

It was mentioned as one of the four Supreme Court justice biographies Joan Biskupic had written, which sparked her interest in the life of Antonin Scalia from research in Reagan files.

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You've written about Sandra Day O'Connor and Antonin Scalia and Sonia Sotomayor.

I started with Justice O'Connor back in the early 2000s.

I was intrigued by her not just as the first woman on the court, but she was the only former elected official on the bench during her whole tenure.

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