Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Died September 2020. Appointed by President Clinton to the U.S. Supreme Court, 1993; appointed by President Carter to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, 1980; general counsel, American Civil Liberties Union, 1973-80; professor, Columbia University School of Law, 1972-80; founder and director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Women's Rights Project, 1971-73; professor, Rutgers University School of Law, 1963-72; research associate and associate director of the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure, 1961-63; law clerk to U.S. District Judge Edmund L. Palmieri of the Southern District of New York, 1959-61

Harvard Law School; LL.B., Columbia Law School