![]() Gay Firestone Wray is Justice O’Connor’s lifelong friend and she is committed to building and maintaining the legacy of the justice. She is a legend and somebody that I will never, never, ever forget.” Gay Firestone Wray: “She’s our friend, but she is beyond that. Scott Bales, who took turns reflecting on Justice O’Connor variously as a friend, wife, mother, visionary, mentor, her legacy, and yes, one of our greatest legal minds. Moderated by Patricia Lee (“Trish”) Refo, the panelists comprised Gay Firestone Wray, Hon. She is the subject of books and of the Sandra Day O’Connor Institute for American Democracy. In addition, this lawyer, legislator, state judge, and Supreme Court Justice, is the author of five books and fifty-two published articles. She wrote 645 opinions during her 24 years on the Supreme Court. ![]() President Ronald Reagan nominated O’Connor and she was confirmed unanimously by the Senate and sworn in as the first female justice on September 25, 1981. Thereafter, she was elected to a Superior Court judgeship in Maricopa County where she served until 1979, when she moved on to the Arizona Court of Appeals in Phoenix. When she rose to the position of majority leader, she was the first woman in the United States to occupy such a position. They have three sons: Scott, Brian, and Jay.Ī Republican, she was elected to the Arizona Senate in 1969. Upon her graduation from law school, she married John Jay O’Connor III, a classmate. She received undergraduate and law degrees from Stanford University. Sandra Day grew up on a large family ranch near Duncan, Arizona. She was known for her balanced and dispassionate opinions. Sandra Day O’Connor was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006. This distinguished panel-including friends, two former justices of the Arizona Supreme Court who were her former law clerks, and a former President of the ABA-spoke about her extraordinary humanness. But not as many know about her as a friend, mother, wife, mentor, legislator, and private citizen, especially before she became a Supreme Court Justice. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor needs no introduction.
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