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Sandra Day O’Conner  By: Julia DeFalco

Sandra Day O’Conner was born on March 26, 1930 in El Paso, Texas. She is still alive today and she is 81.Sandra served as a Supreme Court Justice. She was the first woman in the U.S Supreme Court. She served for 24 years. Sandra grew up on a ranch in Arizona. Sandra also went to Stanford University and graduated in 1950. Ronald Regan was the one who nominated Sandra to be a Justice of the U.S Supreme Court. Sandra’s husband is John Jay O’Conner. Sandra was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. Our lives are better today because of Sandra because now women are able to be a part of government and she made the government equal with both men and women.