According to the History.com (2017), Sandra Day O’Connor was born in 1930 in Texas, but lived her childhood in Arizona in a family ranch called The Lazy B. In 1952 she earned a degree in law and worked in California and Germany, she also got married, in the same year, with John O’ Connor. In the 1960 O’Connor came back in Arizona and found a job as an assistant attorney general and in the 1969 received an appointment by the governor Jack Williams to fill a gap at the state senate and becoming the first majority woman that served as a conservative republican for two consecutive elections. Other political achievements follow in the 1974 when she worked as a judge in the Maricopa County Superior Court and became noticeable as a just judge, in 1979, instead, she served on the State’s …show more content…
In fact, many of her decisions were for a swing vote to keep the balance between conservative and liberals. Since she took part on various liberals’ cases, most republicans were disappointed at her, but as Viet Dinh (Georgetown Law, 2015), on biography declared that O’Connor judged cases individually, according to facts not to personal ideas. As for the case Mississippi v. Hogan, per Biography (2017), a female state run nursing school opposed to admit a male student, O’Connor rightly voted per the majority writing that the school stereotyped the nursing job to be just for women. Also in 1990, in the case Planned Parenthood v. Casey, O’Connor supported abortion rights after marriage as a woman right. Furthermore, in Handi v. Rumsfeld (2004) O’Connor voted with the majority on due process rights for American citizen that are considerate “enemy combatant” by the executive branch. She declared that “a state of war is not a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the Nation’s citizens” (Biography,