Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Pioneers on Different Paths

 

This talk will examine the similarities and differences in the paths that led O’Connor and Ginsburg to the nation’s highest court. O’Connor — the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court — and Ginsburg — the second woman so appointed — shared experiences and crossed paths but each has left a different impact on the law.

 

JERRY GOLDMAN is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. He joined the faculty in 1975 after completing his PhD in political science at The Johns Hopkins University.Goldman was among the first recipients of the all-campus Charles Deering McCormick Chair of Teaching Excellence. He is the recipient of numerous awards for innovation in the use of the information and computer technology including the EDUCOM Medal for demonstrated excellence in the application of computing technology to political science and the recipient of the first American Political Science Association CQ Press Award for Teaching Innovation. Goldman is the co-author of a leading American government textbook, THE CHALLENGE OF DEMOCRACY, now in its 14th edition. His magnum opus, THE OYEZ PROJECT, is a free authoritative archive of all Supreme Court audio recorded from October 1955 to the present. Each year, more than 5 million visitors access more than 10 million pages of content and download or stream thousands of hours of Supreme Court audio <www.oyez.org>.

jgoldman@oyez.org