Education: Cornell University, B. Religion: Jewish. Other Facts. Nominated by President Bill Clinton in She is the first woman to be hired with tenure at Columbia University School of Law. September - Has successful surgery for colon cancer. October June - Undergoes chemotherapy for colon cancer following the surgery.
December 12, - Is one of the four dissenting votes in Bush v. Gore which resolves the disputed presidential election in favor of Texas Governor George W. Ginsburg says she has disagreed with former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor "on a lot of important questions, but we have had the experience of growing up women and we have certain sensitivities that our male colleagues lack.
February , - Has surgery and treatment for early stages of pancreatic cancer. March 17, - It is announced that Ginsburg will be undergoing chemotherapy to treat her pancreatic cancer. August 31, - Becomes the first Supreme Court justice to officiate at a same-sex marriage ceremony.
November 26, - Undergoes a heart procedure to have a stent placed in her right coronary artery. Ginsburg was a longtime family friend of Justice Scalia. He once said they were an "odd couple" and he counted her as his "best buddy" on the bench.
July 11, - Criticizes Donald Trump , calling the presumptive Republican presidential nominee a "faker. January - Indicates, by the hiring of law clerks for at least two more terms , the intention to stay on the Supreme Court bench at least until July 29, - During a speaking appearance, Ginsburg says she plans to stay on the Supreme Court for "at least five more years.
November 8, - Ginsburg is admitted to George Washington University for observation following a fall in her Supreme Court office that fractured three ribs. She is released from the hospital the following day. December 21, - The Supreme Court announces Ginsburg had two cancerous nodules removed from her left lung at a New York hospital. There is no evidence of any remaining disease, says a court spokesperson, nor is there evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. November 22, - Ginsburg is admitted to The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore after experiencing chills and a fever.
She is released on November January 7, - Ginsburg tells CNN that she is "cancer free. February 10, - Ginsburg suggests that the deadline to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment as a constitutional amendment has expired and that the decades long effort must start anew. May 5, - Undergoes nonsurgical treatment for a benign gallbladder condition at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, a court spokeswoman says in a statement.
On May 6, Ginsburg participates in the Supreme Court's teleconference hearing from the hospital , and is discharged from the hospital later in the day. July 14, - Is treated at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for a possible infection , according to a court spokeswoman.
Ginsburg is discharged from the hospital the next day. July 17, - Ginsburg announces that her cancer has reemerged and she has been undergoing chemotherapy since May.
She says she is "fully able" to remain a member of the Court. July 29, - A statement from the court says Ginsburg is resting comfortably in a New York City hospital after undergoing a "minimally invasive non-surgical procedure" to replace a bile duct stent that was originally placed last year. She is expected to be discharged from the hospital by the end of the week. Despite her reputation for restrained writing, she gathered considerable attention for her dissenting opinion in the case of Bush v.
Gore , which effectively decided the presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. Objecting to the court's majority opinion favoring Bush, Ginsburg deliberately and subtly concluded her decision with the words, "I dissent" — a significant departure from the tradition of including the adverb "respectfully.
On June 27, , Ginsburg's husband died of cancer. She described Martin as her biggest booster and "the only young man I dated who cared that I had a brain. Martin provided a reason for their successful union: "My wife doesn't give me any advice about cooking and I don't give her any advice about the law. In , Ginsburg sided with the majority in two landmark Supreme Court rulings.
On June 25th she was one of the six justices to uphold a critical component of the Affordable Care Act — often referred to as Obamacare — in King v. The decision allows the federal government to continue providing subsidies to Americans who purchase health care through "exchanges," regardless of whether they are state or federally operated.
Conservative justices Clarence Thomas , Samuel Alito and Antonin Scalia were in dissent, with Scalia presenting a scathing dissenting opinion to the Court. On June 26, the Supreme Court handed down its second historic decision in as many days, with a 5—4 majority ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges that made same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states.
Ginsburg is considered to have been instrumental in the decision, having shown public support for the idea in past years by officiating same-sex marriages and by challenging arguments against it during the early proceedings of the case.
Ginsburg notably opposed the potential of a Donald Trump presidency in , at one point calling him a "faker," before apologizing for publicly commenting on the campaign. In January , after the president released a list of Supreme Court candidates in preparation for the looming retirement of elderly justices, the year-old Ginsburg signaled she wasn't going anywhere by hiring a full slate of clerks through The issue of her staying power loomed large later in the year when Justice Kennedy, who often sided with the court's liberal bloc, announced he was stepping down at the end of July, though Ginsburg at that time revealed that she hoped to stick around for at least five more years.
In Ginsburg released My Own Words , a memoir filled with her writings that date as far back as her junior high school years. Touching on the MeToo movement, she recalled an earlier time when she had to put up with the advances of a Cornell University professor.
In an interview with Poppy Harlow at Columbia University in February, Ginsburg expanded on her thoughts regarding the MeToo movement, saying its "staying power" would enable it to survive a backlash. She also defended the importance of a free press and an independent judiciary, both of which had been challenged during the Trump administration.
In April , Ginsburg notched another career milestone by assigning a majority opinion for the first time in her 25 years with the court. The ruling for Sessions v. Dimaya , which drew attention for conservative Neil Gorsuch 's decision to vote with his liberal colleagues, struck down a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act that allowed the deportation of any foreign national convicted of a "crime of violence. Ginsburg endured several health scares after being appointed to the bench, undergoing surgery for colon cancer, pancreatic cancer and lung cancer.
She was hospitalized in November after falling in her office and fracturing three ribs. In May , one day after the Court heard arguments via teleconference for the first time due to the coronavirus pandemic, it was announced that the senior justice had again been hospitalized, to undergo a nonsurgical treatment for a gallbladder infection.
In July , Ginsburg revealed she was undergoing chemotherapy for a "recurrence of cancer" on her liver and was "yielding positive results. Ginsburg died on September 18, , at her home in Washington, D.
Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her — a tireless and resolute champion of justice. Supreme Court in by President Bill Clinton, she continued to argue for gender equality in such cases as United States v.
She died September 18, due to complications from metastatic pancreas cancer. Ginsburg's family was Jewish. Bader graduated from Cornell University in , finishing first in her class. She married Martin D. Ginsburg, also a law student, that same year. The early years of their marriage were challenging, as their first child, Jane, was born shortly after Martin was drafted into the military in He served for two years and, after his discharge, the couple returned to Harvard where Ginsburg also enrolled.
At Harvard, Ginsburg learned to balance life as a mother and her new role as a law student. She also encountered a very male-dominated, hostile environment, with only eight females in her class of But Ginsburg pressed on and excelled academically, eventually becoming a member of the prestigious legal journal, the Harvard Law Review.
Then, another challenge: Martin contracted testicular cancer in , requiring intensive treatment and rehabilitation. Ginsburg attended to her young daughter and convalescing husband, taking notes for him in classes while she continued her own law studies.
Martin recovered, graduated from law school, and accepted a position at a New York law firm. She graduated first in her class in Despite her outstanding academic record, however, Ginsburg continued to encounter gender discrimination while seeking employment after graduation.
After clerking for U. District Judge Edmund L. However, she also believed that the law was gender-blind and all groups were entitled to equal rights. One of the five cases she won before the Supreme Court involved a portion of the Social Security Act that favored women over men because it granted certain benefits to widows but not widowers.
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. She served there until she was appointed to the U.
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