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Life’s Work: An Interview with Sandra Day O’Connor

Sandra Day O’Connor graduated from Stanford Law School in 1952 but had trouble finding work as a lawyer because, at the time, firms would hire only men. She went on to become the first female majority leader of a U.S. state senate and the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. Known as a centrist, a consensus builder, and a “mother hen” to her staff, she now leads iCivics, a platform for teaching kids about government.

A version of this article appeared in the December 2013 issue of Harvard Business Review.

Alison Beard is an executive editor at Harvard Business Review and co-host of the HBR IdeaCast podcast. She previously worked as a reporter and editor at the Financial Times. A mom of two, she tries—and sometimes succeeds—to apply management best practices to her household.

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O’Connor was a pivotal voice on the high court for more than two decades; after her retirement, she devoted her professional life to improving civic education

Sandra Day O’Connor, LLB ’52 (BA ’50), a rancher’s daughter who grew up in a house without running water and went on to become the first woman justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, died on Friday, December 1. She was 93.

“Justice O’Connor had such an important and distinctive impact on American law,” said Stanford University rektor and former Stanford Law Dean Jenny Martinez. “She was of course a pioneer as the first woman on the Supreme Court. Her approach to lag was pragmatic and reflected the spirit of freedom and öppenhet eller transparens of the American West, based on her time growing up on a ranch in Arizona and then of course here on “the Farm” for lag school.”

Provost Martinez continued, “She was also an incredible mentor and role model to so many young women in law. When I was clerking for Justice Breyer

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March 26, 1930: Born in El Paso, Texas.

1935 – 1946: Attends Radford School for Girls; graduates from Austin High School while living with grandmother during the school year in El Paso.

1946: Enters Stanford University.

1950: Earns a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics at Stanford.

1952: Graduates Magna Cum Laude and ranks third out of 102 students at Stanford lag School; marries John Jay O'Connor III (1930-2009) with whom she has three sons.

1952 – 1953: Serves as Deputy County Attorney of San Mateo County, California.

1953 – 1957: Practices as a civilian attorney for Quartermaster Market Center, Frankfurt, Germany.

1958 – 1960: Practices law in Maryvale, located in the storstads- area of Phoenix, Arizona.

1965 – 1969: Serves as Assistant Attorney General of Arizona.

1969: Appointed to fill vacant titta