Women's History Month: Sisters Holding Court

Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan

Left to right: Justices O'Conner, Sotomayor, Ginsburg, Kagan

The four women who have served as justices for the nation’s highest court were nominated by three different presidents. Three of the justices graduated from Ivy League schools (Harvard, Yale, and Cornell), and the fourth from Stanford, yet their formative years were not necessarily as privileged as their higher education institutions suggest.

To learn more about these historic women, stop by the library and borrow some of the books we have about them, visit this blog post, or go to the Supreme Court’s website.

Books at the Sullivan Lexington Library

Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice by Joan Biskupic; 343.7326 B622b

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon; 347.7326 C287n

Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court by Sandra Day O’Connor; 347.7326 O18o

Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Linda Bayer; 347.73 B357r

Sandra Day O’Connor; DVD 347.7324 S219

  

Sandra Day O’Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court BecameIts Most Influential Justice; 347.73 B622s

Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Wentto the Supreme Court and Changed the World by Linda Hirshman; 347.7326 H669s

Sonia Sotomayor: The True American Dream by Antonia Felix; 347.73 F316s

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Source:
Supreme Court of the United States. (24 February, 2017). Biographies of Current Justices of the Supreme Court. Retrieved from: https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx