Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, legal and feminist icon, passed away peacefully at her Washington D.C. home on September 18th, 2020 due to complications of metastatic cancer.
“Our nation has lost a justice of historic stature,” Chief Justice John Roberts said. “We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her, a tireless and resolute champion of justice.”
During her time at Harvard Law as a young woman, she was one in nine women out of a class of over 500 students. This sparked her passion for breaking the glass ceiling.
Ginsberg never stopped fighting for equality and justice from decades before she was appointed in the Supreme Court up until her last day of life. She worked her whole life to break down the glass ceiling and other barriers holding women back from being decision makers. As a relatively new Supreme Court justice, Ginsburg wrote the court’s 7-1 opinion declaring that the Virginia Military Institute could no longer remain an all-male institution.
Ginsberg wore many hats in her lifetime and career. She was a mother, a wife, a student, a teacher, an advocate for women and minority rights, a cancer fighter, a Supreme Court Judge, and so much more. She is survived by her two children, Jane and James.
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