But her time away from the office was far from idle.
Television repair business in a shopping center.Īfter the birth of Justice O’Connor’s second child, her babysitter moved to California and Justice O’Connor, who eventually had three sons, decided to come home to care for herįamily. The couple returned to Phoenix, AZ in 1957, with Justice O’Connor and a single partner opening a storefront law firm next to a Her husband joined the Judge Advocate General’s Corps after his graduation, and the two were sent to Frankfurt, Germany, where Justice O’Connorīecame a civilian lawyer for the Quartermaster’s Corps. Some of her former Stanford classmates, who had taken jobs with big law firms, were doing much less interesting Though not her first choice, the job proved to be a blessing, offering work representing a variety of countyĪgencies and officials in many aspects of their work running the local government. But I couldn’t get an interview.”įinally, she tied on as deputy county attorney for San Mateo County in California. “I was so naïve,” she said of her initial job search, noting that one firm she had applied to asked if she would take work as a secretary. Helped sustain her as she looked for work in a male-dominated field after her graduation from Stanford Law in 1952. Those qualities, along with the knowledge that someone had to pay the grocery bills while her husband completed law school, That was a hallmark of life on the remote ranch in the high desert. Throughout the talk, Justice O’Connor displayed the folksy humor, pragmatism and straightforwardness that have marked her 22 years on the High Court. The Stanford Law Review, earn membership to the Order of the Coif, and finish third in her class of 102 - two places behind William Rehnquist, now her colleague on the She graduated in just two years, finding time to serve on Truck and shoot a rifle by the time she was 8 years old, and she was invited to join the handful of women then attending the law school. But Stanford saw promise in the well read, inquisitive young woman who had learned to ride a horse, drive a “He said you can go out there and by your actions and interest alone you can meaningfullyĭespite her enthusiasm, she said, her entry to Stanford Law School was far from assured. “I loved that class and the professor was incredible,” Justice O’Connor said. A professor at the university convinced a young Sandra Day, who was taking an undergraduate law class, that she could do great things for Law when she was an undergraduate at Stanford University. Often during the discussion, part of School’s Great Lives in the Law series, Justice O’Connor returned to the idea of public service, a theme that first piqued her interest in Youth during the 1930s on the Lazy-B ranch in the Arizona desert, her highly successful years at Stanford Law School, working to overcome chauvinism early in her law career, and some of herĮxperiences as the first woman to serve on the U.S. In a wide-ranging dialogue with Duke Law Professor Walter Dellinger, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor told an audience of hundreds in the Duke Law Library on March 18 about her rough-and-tumble Professor Walter Dellinger and Justice O'Connor during the question and answer session
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