Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is from Brooklyn, New York. She received her B.A. from Cornell University. She also attended Harvard Law School and received her LL.B. from Columbia Law School. She was instrumental in launching the Women's Rights Project of the ACLU in 1971. President Bill Clinton nominated her as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court; she took her seat on August 10, 1993, replacing Associate Justice Byron White and becoming only the second woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court.
For more information, check out the biographies of current Justices here.
Also, check out his biography on The Oyez Project here.
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