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Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman on the Supreme Court, dies at 93

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She grew up on the family’s Lazy B Ranch, which sat astride the border between Arizona and New Mexico and occupied about 250 square miles – almost four times the size of Washington, D.C. One California-based firm, Gibson Dunn, did offer O’Connor a job – as a legal secretary. O’Connor’s opinion in Jackson v.

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