Former Affiliate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is about to lie in repose Monday on the Supreme Court so the general public pays their respects Monday morning forward of a funeral service tomorrow on the Washington Nationwide Cathedral.
The Supreme Court docket stated a non-public ceremony can be held at 9:30 a.m. ET earlier than O’Connor might be viewable from 10:30 a.m. to eight p.m. contained in the constructing’s Nice Corridor.
O’Connor, who was the primary girl to sit down on the Supreme Court docket, died in Phoenix on Dec. 1 on the age of 93. The Court docket stated O’Connor handed because of “complications related to advanced dementia, probably Alzheimer’s, and a respiratory illness.”
O’Connor is remembered as a history-making girl, a realistic conservative, a eager authorized thoughts and a beloved mom and grandmother.
SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR, FORMER SURPREME COURT JUSTICE, DEAD AT 93
Supreme Court docket Affiliate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor poses for a photograph in 1982. O’Connor, who joined the Supreme Court docket in 1981 because the nation’s first feminine justice, died on Dec. 1 at age 93. (AP Picture)
She was appointed to the Court in 1981 by former President Reagan. O’Connor stepped down in 2006 from the bench, however she remained an lively and public voice for quite a lot of causes, together with judicial independence and civics training.
In 2018, the then 88-year-old revealed in a letter launched to the general public that she was within the early levels of dementia.
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Sandra Day O’Connor and then-Chief Justice Warren Burger pose for footage on the U.S. Supreme Court docket constructing in Washington, Sept. 25, 1981. (AP Picture)
Following her loss of life, present Supreme Court docket Justices hailed O’Connor as being a trailblazer, an “American hero” and “hugely influential.”
“A daughter of the American Southwest, Sandra Day O’Connor blazed an historic trail as our Nation’s first female Justice. She met that challenge with undaunted determination, indisputable ability, and engaging candor,” Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr. stated in an announcement.
Sandra Day O’Connor is proven earlier than administering the oath of workplace to members of the Texas Supreme Court docket, Jan. 6, 2003, in Austin, Texas. (AP Picture/Harry Cabluck)
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“I mourn the passing of another American hero. When Sandra Day O’Connor, the ‘cowgirl from out west,’ became the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court, she changed the world and made history,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor added. “Indeed, her entire life was pathbreaking. She served in all three branches of government, was a brilliant champion of women’s rights, and promoted civic education in a way that transformed how children learn about our shared responsibility as citizens.”
Fox Information’ Invoice Mears, Shannon Bream and Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report.
