Thursday, October 30, 2008

2ND ANNOTATION-SANDRA DAY O CONNOR

Hoch, Maureen. "Sandra Day O'Connor." Supreme Court Watch. The Online NewsHour. 16 Oct.2008
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This article is about Sandra Day O'Connor being born in Texas in 1930. She lived on a ranch in her early young years in Arizona and eventually moved with her grandmother in El Paso. She went to Stanford to study economics in 1950 and then later she studied law. It only took her two years to finish ccollage, which usually takes three years and she finished in third place of her class. When she came out of law school she was offered a job as a legal secretary. Instead she took a job as a deputy attorney general. In 1953 her husband which was a lawyer was drafted into the Judge Advocate General's Court. So that ment that they had to move to Frankfurt Gemany. she then served as a civilian attorney for the Quartermaster Market Center from 1954-1957. They then returned to Arizona an O'Connor could not find a private llaw firm to work at so she started her own practice. In 1965 she took the position as an assistant attorney general of Arizona and in three years she was appointed to Arizona's state senate. She was re-elected two more times as senate of Arizona. She became the first republican women to be a majority leader in the country in 1974. In the same year she was elected judge of the Maricopa County Superior Court where she served until 1979 then she was appointed to the Arizona Court of Appeals. She was then nominated by President Reagon in 1981 to be in the supreme court.

ANNOTATION-SANDRA DAY O CONNOR

Biskupic,Joan.Sandra Day O'Connor:How The First Women on Supreme Court Became its most Influential Justice. Oct 25,2005
This biography was one of many biographies on the life of Sandar Day O'Connor life. This biography gave me info on the life of Sandra, her struggles, and quotes she used to encourage young girls to follow in her postion.
O'Connor Day, Sandra, Day, H Alan. Lazy B.2002
This is a book written by Sandra herself. She tells about her young life growing up. This book helped me get a vision on what made Sandra want to become interested into the life of law.The book was also written by her husband. This gave me an outlook on their love life and how they work together to survive her husband Akleizmer disease.

Introduction-Sandra Day O'Connor

Despite the troubles in Sandra s life she was still able to achieve greatness.In 1974 Sandra Day O'Connor was elected to a position of trial judge for Maricopa County and 5 years later was appointed by then Governor Bruce Babbitt to the Court of Appeals. On July 7, 1981 President Reagan announced that Sandra Day O'Connor was his appointee to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by Associate Justice Potter Stewart's retirement.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

NHD-Sandra Day O Conner

The person I choose do for NHD is Sandra Day O Conner.The reason i choose to do her is because she the first woman in the Supreme Court.If it wasnt for her women would not be able to assists in the Supreme Court.I think what she did opened up the doors for a lot of women in America.Thats a very inspiring act.This is why i choose Sandra Day O Conner for my NHD project.