Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
1933 -

Details
Alias: Ruth Bader
Born: 3/15/1933 in Brooklyn, New York
Ethnicity: White/Caucasian
Professional Facts
Regions and States of Practice:
NY, Northeast
DC, South
Legal Education:
Columbia Law School, 1959
Harvard Law School
Other Education:
Cornell University (1954)
Positions During Her Career:
Clerk to the Honorable Edmund L. Palmieri, United States District Court, Southern District of New York (1959-1961)
Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure: Research Associate (1961-1962) and Associate Director (1962-1963)
Rutgers University School of Law: Professor (1963-1972)
American Bar Association Journal Board of Editors (1972-1978)
American Civil Liberties Union: Women's Rights Project, Founder and Counsel (1972-1980), General Counsel (1973-1980), and on the National Board of Directors (1974-1980)
Columbia Law School: Professor (1972-1980)
ABA Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, Council Member (1975-1981)
Council on Foreign Relations (1975-present)
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford, California): Fellow (1977-1978)
American Law Institute, Council Member (1978-1993)
American Bar Foundation Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and Secretary (1979-1989)
Nominated by President Carter to United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1980-1993)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow (1982-present)
Nominated by President Clinton as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United State (1993-present)
Firsts:
Tenured woman law professor at Columbia University (1972)
Accomplishments:
Contributed to the Harvard Law Review
Wrote for the Columbia Law Review and was a Kent Scholar
Further Research Materials

References:
Why Care About the History of Women in the Legal Profession?
Mary L. Clark, Why Care About the History of Women in the Legal Profession?, 27 (2) Women's Rights Law Reporter 59 (Spring 2006)
The American Heartbreak: A Biographical Sketch of Pauli Murray
Paul L. Edenfield, The American Heartbreak: A Biographical Sketch of Pauli Murray, 27 Legal Studies Forum 733 (2003)
A Century of Achievement: The Centennial of the National Association of Women Lawyers
Selma Moidel Smith: A Century of Achievement: The Centennial of the National Association of Women Lawyers, 85 Women Lawyers Journal 2 (Summer 1999) *Originally printed as two articles: "...The First 50 Years," 9 Experience 1 (Fall 1998), and "...The Second 50 Years," 9 Experience 2 (Winter 1999)
15 Years of Advocacy for Women
Lisa Small, 15 Years of Advocacy for Women: Women and the Law Time Line, 1619-1998. Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program on its 15th Anniversary, 1998.
A Timeline of Women's Legal History in the United States
Professor Cunnea and Lisa Small, A Timeline of Women's Legal History in the United States. March 8, 1998.
Dawn Bradley Berry, The 50 Most Influential Women in American Law. Los Angeles: Contemporary Books (1996).
Rebecca Mae Salokar and Mary L. Volcansek (Eds.), Women in Law: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press (1996).
Women in the Federal Judiciary: Three Way Pavers and the Exhilarating Change President Carter Wrought
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Laura W. Brill, Women in the Federal Judiciary: Three Way Pavers and the Exhilarating Change President Carter Wrought, 64 Fordham Law Review 281 (November 1995)
Lynn Gilbert and Gaylen Moore, Particular Passions: Talks With Women Who Have Shaped Our Times. New York: C.N. Potter (1981).

Links:
22 Portraits of Women at Columbia Law School - Part 1
Cornell University - Legal Information Institute
Supreme Court Profiles