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.