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This Day in Legal History: Sandra Day O’Connor Confirmed
On September 21, 1981, the United States Senate voted 99 to 0 to confirm Sandra Day O’Connor to the Supreme Court of the United States, making her the first woman ever to sit on the nation’s highest court—191 years after the Court was established. Nominated by President Ronald Reagan, who had pledged during his campaign to name a woman to the Court, O’Connor sailed through confirmation with unanimous support, the lone missing vote belonging to a senator away at a conference.
O’Connor’s path to that seat is a story about the barriers she…
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