Her majority opinions in landmark cases include Grutter v. She often wrote concurring opinions that limited the reach of the majority holding. O'Connor most frequently sided with the Court's conservative bloc. Samuel Alito was nominated to take her seat in October 2005 and joined the Court on January 31, 2006. Sandra Day O’Connor (1930-) was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006, and was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court. On July 1, 2005, she announced her intention to retire effective upon the confirmation of a successor. Upon her nomination to the Court, O'Connor was confirmed unanimously by the Senate. Prior to O'Connor's tenure on the Court, she was a judge and an elected official in Arizona, serving as the first female majority leader of a state senate as the Republican leader in the Arizona Senate. In an opinion written for the 6-3 majority, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said that the reasoning.
Setting Limits on Drug War Tactics, High Court Rejects Drug Roadblocks. Nominated by President Ronald Reagan, she was considered the swing vote for the Rehnquist Court and the first few months of the Roberts Court. The key to this case was Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who had previously ruled against the district and whose vote tipped the balance in favor of the district. Don’t let fate take over, it said in her neat cursive script. She was the first woman nominated and, subsequently, the first woman confirmed. In the late 1970s, Sandra Day O’Connor, then a judge for the Maricopa County Superior Court in Arizona, wrote a note to herself.
Sandra Day O'Connor is an American retired attorney and politician who served as the first female associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006.
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