Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Served as law clerk to the Honorable Edmund L. Palmieri, Judge of the United States District Court for the Souther District of New York, from 1959-61. From 1961-63, she was a research associate and then associate director of the Columbia Law School Project on International procedure. She was a Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law from 1963-72, and Columbia Law School from 1972-80, and a fellow ar the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California from 1977-78. In 1971, she was instrumental in launching the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties union, and served as the ACLU's General Counsel from 1973-1980, and on the National Board of Directors from 1974-80. She was appointed a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1980, and took seat as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on August 10, 1993.