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This Day in Legal History: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Joins the Court
On August 10, 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, becoming the second woman—and the first Jewish woman—ever to serve on it. She had been confirmed by the Senate just a week earlier by a lopsided 96 to 3, a margin that is almost unimaginable for a Supreme Court nominee today, and she took the seat vacated by the retiring Justice Byron White.
Ginsburg reached the Court after one of the most consequential legal careers of the twentieth century—much of it spent, as a litigator…
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