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Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Judge / Lawyer / Jurist | * 03/15/1933 († 87, 09/18/2020) | Brooklyn, New York (United States of America (USA))
Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg ( BAY-dər GHINZ-burg; née Bader; March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton to replace retiring justice Byron White, and at the time was viewed as a moderate consensus-builder. Ginsburg was the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court, after Sandra Day O'Connor. During her tenure, Ginsburg authored the majority opinions in cases such as United States v. Virginia (1996), Olmstead v. L.C. (1999), Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc. (2000), and City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York (2005). Later in her tenure, Ginsburg received attention for passionate dissents that reflected liberal views of the law. She was popularly dubbed "the Notorious R.B.G.", a moniker she later embraced. Ginsburg was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Her older sister, Marilyn, died of meningitis at the age of six, when Joan was a baby, and her mother died shortly before she graduated from high school. She earned her bachelor's degree at Cornell University and married Martin D. Ginsburg, becoming a mother before starting law ... ()
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg (born Joan Ruth Bader; March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in September 2020. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton, replacing retiring justice Byron White, and at the time was generally viewed as a moderate consensus-builder. She eventually became part of the liberal wing of the Court as the Court shifted to the right over time. Ginsburg was the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court, after Sandra Day O'Connor. Ginsburg was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Her older sister died when she was a baby, and her mother died shortly before Ginsburg graduated from high school. She earned her bachelor's degree at Cornell University and married Martin D. Ginsburg, becoming a mother before starting law school at Harvard, where she was one of the few women in her class. Ginsburg transferred to Columbia Law School, where she graduated joint first in her class. During the early 1960s, she worked with the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure, learned Swedish, and co-authored a book with Swedish jurist Anders Bruzelius; her work in Sweden profoundly influenced her thinking on gender equality. She then became a professor at Rutgers Law School and Columbia Law School, teaching civil procedure as one of the few women in her field.Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender equality and women's rights, winning many arguments before the Supreme Court. She advocated as a volunteer attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union and was a member of its board of directors and one of its general counsel in the 1970s. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where she served until her appointment to the Supreme Court in 1993. Between O'Connor's retirement in 2006 and the appointment of Sonia Sotomayor in 2009, she was the only female justice on the Supreme Court. During that time, Ginsburg became more forceful with her dissents, notably in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (2007). Ginsburg's dissenting opinion was credited with inspiring the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act which was signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2009, making it easier for employees to win pay discrimination claims.Ginsburg received attention in American popular culture for her passionate dissents in numerous cases, widely seen as reflecting paradigmatically liberal views of the law. She was dubbed "The Notorious R.B.G.", and she later embraced the moniker. Ginsburg died at her home in Washington, D.C., on September 18, 2020, at the age of 87, from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer. Given the proximity of her death to the 2020 election and Ginsburg's wish for her replacement not to be chosen "until a new president is installed", the decision for President Trump to appoint and all but one of the Republican Senators to confirm Amy Coney Barrett as her replacement proved controversial after the Senate Republican majority's prior refusal to hold a hearing or vote for Merrick Garland in early 2016 under Barack Obama after the death of Antonin Scalia.

Most frequent genres for this person: Documentaries | History | Comedies

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Awards & Nominations for Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Brandeis Medal National Women's Hall of Fame Honorary Doctor of The Ohio State University Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences Honorary Doctor of Harvard University Forbes list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women Time 100 Honorary Doctorate From Princeton University Four Freedoms Award – Freedom Medal Jefferson Awards for Public Service Golden Plate Award Genesis Prize Margaret Brent Award Berggruen Prize Honorary Doctorate of Lund University Honorary Doctor of The Willamette University Radcliffe Medal
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Movies with Ruth Bader Ginsburg as Actress(14)

as herself2021 The Automat
as Self (Archive Footage)2020 Remembering RBG: A Nation Ugly Cries
as Self (archive footage)2018 Reversing Roe
as herself2018 RBG
as herself2018 Out of Many, One
as herself2018 On the Basis of Sex
as Self (archive footage)2018 Fahrenheit 11/9
as herself2014 The Sturgeon Queens
as Self (archive footage)2013 Citizen Koch
as Self (archive footage)2009 Capitalism: A Love Story
as herself2009 Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2004 Fahrenheit 9/11

TV Shows/Series with Ruth Bader Ginsburg as Actress(2)

as herself2022 Live to Lead

Additional Information

Official websites:
Full Name: Ruth Joan Bader
Born: Wednesday, 03/15 1933 (March) in Brooklyn, New York (United States of America (USA))
Died: Friday, 09/18 2020 (September) in Washington, D.C. (aged: 87)
Zodiac sign: Pisces (Chinese zodiac sign: Rooster)
Languages: English (EN), Hebrew (HE), Swedish (SV), American English
Educated at: Cornell University, Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, James Madison High School
Employer: Rutgers University, Columbia University, Federal Government of the United States
Member of: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Net worth estimate: 4,000,000 USD
Spouses (current/former): Martin D. Ginsburg
Children: Jane C. Ginsburg, James Steven Ginsburg
Student of: Benjamin Kaplan
Influenced by/Role models: Dorothy Kenyon
Other names for Ruth Bader Ginsburg (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Joan Ruth Bader"
"RBG"
"The Notorious R.B.G"
"Notorious R.B.G." (Pseudonym)
"R.B.G." (Pseudonym)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg frequently works together with these people:
Michael Moore (15x, Crew)
Clarence Thomas (7x, Cast)
Julie Cohen (6x, Crew)
Bill Clinton (5x, Actor)
Anthony M. Kennedy (5x, Actor)
Barack Obama (4x, Actor)
Betsy West (4x, Crew)
Sandra Day O'Connor (4x, Actress)
Antonin Scalia (4x, Actor)
Stephen Breyer (4x, Actor)
George W. Bush (3x, Actor)
Barak Goodman (2x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:552187, Added: 10/10/2018, Last updated: 03/05/2024