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Ruth bader ginsburg photos9/14/2023 ![]() ![]() While any man with Ginsburg’s academic record could expect a clerkship in a federal appeals court or the Supreme Court, Ginsburg, a woman and a mother of a four-year-old daughter, was passed over. She joined the law review and made it a point to speak up in her male-dominated classes, even as she felt, when answering questions, the burden of representing all women. Ginsburg transferred to Columbia, a step that would transform her life and eventually the country.Ī shy, quiet student with a commanding intellect and relentless will, Ginsburg relished her time on campus. Born in Brooklyn, she went to college at Cornell and had completed two years at Harvard Law School when her husband, Marty, a tax lawyer, got a job in New York. Long before she became the second woman on the high court - before the incisive, literate opinions and echoing dissents, before the lace collars and pop-culture stardom - Ginsburg gained wisdom on Morningside Heights. Apart from a statue of Ginsburg herself, there could hardly be a more appropriate spot to honor the Supreme Court justice who finished at the top of her class at Columbia Law School and was Columbia’s first female tenured law professor. Photo by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders ’74CC.Īfter her death in September, flowers and handwritten notes addressed to Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59LAW, ’94HON piled up at the base of the Alma Mater statue on the Low Plaza steps. ![]() Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court, 1997. ![]()
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