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

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One California-based firm, Gibson Dunn, did offer O’Connor a job – as a legal secretary. That “reappraisal” began in 1992, when O’Connor authored the court’s opinion in New York v. She stayed there until 1954, when she moved to Germany with her husband, who served as an Army lawyer. O’Connor’s opinion in Jackson v.

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