Vogueのインスタグラム(voguemagazine) - 12月2日 02時55分

Called “the most powerful woman in America” after her historic appointment to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan in 1981, at 51 years old—“I happily share the honor with millions of American women of yesterday and today whose abilities and conduct have given me this opportunity for service,” she said in her opening statement—O’Connor served in that position for more than 24 years.

In 1993 she was joined on the bench by the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “I can say that it matters a great deal to me to have a second woman on the Supreme Court,” O’Connor said later. “And it is especially fitting that she should be Justice Ginsburg, a woman who has advanced directly in so many ways the progress of women.”

Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O’Connor, Supreme Court, Washington, DC, 1997. Photographed by Annie Leibovitz

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