Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg was nominated by President William Jefferson Clinton as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Following confirmation by the U.S. Senate, 97-3, Ginsburg was commissioned August 5, 2003, and took the oath of office August 10, 1993. Ginsburg is the second female Justice to serve on the Supreme Court. [1]

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Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg was born March 15, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York. [2]

In 2004, Forbes magazine selected Ginsburg — "former general counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union and a longtime law professor" — as the 7th most powerful woman in the world. [3]

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  1. People, Center for Constitutional Democracy in Plural Societies, accessed March 16, 2008.
  2. About, World Justice Project, accessed April 27, 2008.