Retired Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor. November 6, 2013. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/The National Law Journal. A new book that is a personal portrait of the first woman on the U.S ...

For so many women in the legal field, including Drexel University professor Lisa Tucker, the loss of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is personal.

On the July day in 1981 when President Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O’Connor to the Supreme Court, I headed to the law library at the Library of Congress to read up on O’Connor’s cases ...

Sandra Day O’Connor came from a famously eclectic background, growing up on a Texas cattle ranch before becoming one of the first women to inhabit the rarefied precincts of Stanford Law School.

O’Connor was offered one job: legal secretary. ... A C-Span Book Featuring the Justices in Their Own Words.” After leaving the court, O’Connor launched iCivics in 2006, ...

For all the late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s trailblazing accomplishments, one piece of her legacy remains incomplete: reforming judicial elections.