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A New York-born Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. She initially attended Harvard Law School but completed her degree at Columbia Law School where, in 1972, she was the first woman to become a tenured faculty member. Bader Ginsburg was a leader in the struggle for gender equality in the workplace. In 1980, she was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She was later appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1993. She was the second woman—and the first Jewish woman—ever to serve as a Supreme Court justice.
