THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020
“My eyes were opened in 1963 and by the late ’60s I was there at the right time when society was ready to listen.”
– Justice Ginsburg on women’s rights.
Scholar. Activist. Trailblazing litigator. First female member of the prestigious legal journal, the Harvard Law Review. Taught at Rutgers University Law School and then at Columbia University, where she became its first female tenured professor. Director of the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union during the 1970s. Appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 1980. Named to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1993.
Interviewed by Lynn Hecht Schafran at the VFA Salute to Feminist Lawyers event, 2008
- Photo 1. Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1977 ©Lynn Gilbert via Wikimedia Commons.
- Photo 2. Sworn in by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, August, 1993 (Photo by Marcy Nighswander).
- Photo 3. VFA Salute to Feminist Lawyers – Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Judge Emily Jane Goodman, Jacqui Ceballos, Sylvia Roberts, Phyllis Segal, 2008 (Photo by Bettye Lane).
- Photo 4. Cover of Time Magazine, April 27 – May 4, 2015.
- Photo 5. A vigil for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, San Francisco, CA, September 18, 2020.
More About Justice Ginsburg:
- Women In Law remember the life and career of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- RGB – The Film
- Select Interviews and Highlights
- NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg, 2019
- The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy 2019
- CNN – My Life on the Supreme Court
- BBC Newsnight 2017
- MSNBC’s exclusive interview with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2015
- UC Hastings Professor Joan Williams 2011
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Supreme Court Nomination Hearings from PBS NewsHour and EMK Institute, 1993
- President Clinton announcing Ruth Bader Ginsburg as Supreme Court Justice nominee, 1993
- Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg being sworn in as Associate Supreme Court Justice. Clinton Presidential Library 1993
- On C-SPAN
- The Library at Washington and Lee University School of Law – Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America, pages 174-175