Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg aka “The Notorious RBG.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a hero. An icon. Brilliant. She was the second woman to serve on the US Supreme Court and served for 27 years. She was a pioneering advocate for women’s rights. Harvard Law and Columbia Law. Lawyer. Professor. Wife to Marty and two children. Survivor of five bouts of cancer. She died due to metastatic pancreatic cancer on Friday September 18, 2020 surrounded by her family. She was 87.
“She changed the way the world is for American women. For more than a decade, until her first judicial appointment in 1980, she led the fight in the courts for gender equality. When she began her legal crusade, women were treated, by law, differently from men. Hundreds of state and federal laws restricted what women could do, barring them from jobs, rights and even from jury service. By the time she donned judicial robes, however, Ginsburg had worked a revolution…She was an unlikely pioneer, a diminutive and shy woman, whose soft voice and large glasses hid an intellect and attitude that, as one colleague put it, was “tough as nails.” By the time she was in her 80s, she had become something of a rock star to women of all ages. She was the subject of a hit documentary, a biopic, an operetta, merchandise galore featuring her “Notorious RBG” moniker, a Time magazine cover and regular Saturday Night Live sketches.” (https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/100306972/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87).
Just a few days before her death, Ruth dictated a statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera that said: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”
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