When Sandra Day O’Connor Broke Into the Men’s Club by Linda Greenhouse
'Before there was the first female presidential nominee of a major political party, before there was a female speaker of the House or a female attorney general or a female secretary of state, there was the F.W.O.T.S.C. — the first woman on the Supreme Court, the wry signature that Sandra Day O’Connor has on occasion chosen for herself.
By this time in midsummer 35 years ago, the future Justice O’Connor, who sat on Arizona’s intermediate appeals court, had completed her courtesy calls to Senate offices and was awaiting her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. It was the first Supreme Court confirmation hearing to be televised. She was a hit. The Senate confirmed her on Sept. 21, 1981, by a vote of 99-0.'>>>
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