In the next six years, they had three sons. When John was discharged from the Army, the O`Connors decided to settle down in the Phoenix area in 1957. Sandra accompanied John to Germany when he was drafted into the Judge Advocate General Corps, and she signed on with the Quartermasters Corps as a civilian attorney. Her only offer from a California law firm was as a legal secretary. Six months after graduation, in December 1952, she married John O`Connor.Дuring the early 1950s, it was difficult for women to find any meaninful, well-paid positions, and it was no different for O`Connor, even with her impeccable credentials. Her top class standing earned O`Connor an invitation to the 'Order of the Coif,' an elite group of attorneys that were in the top 10 percent of their classes. She completed her law degree in two years instead of the usual three, and served on the Stanford Law Review. In 1952, she finished third out of 102 students in the same class as William Rehnquist, later to be a chief justice, who was the undisputed number one. She was graduated from Stanford University with a degree in economics, then earned her L.L.B. Sandra Day, born in March 1930, grew up on an isolated southeastern Arizona cattle ranch, the 'Lazy B,' near the town of Duncan, pop. Her personal life included such disparate thrills as being named an honorary member of the Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas stroking a hole-in-one on a golf course in her home state and making an impromptu appearance as Queen Isabel in a Shakespeare Theater`s production of Henry V. Aside from being the first woman and 102nd person chosen for the highest court in the land, Sandra Day O`Connor will be remembered for being the decisive vote in close decisions preserving the separation of church and state, upholding abortion rights, and allowing universities to adopt Affirmative Action policies that favor minority applicants. From Arizona cowgirl to a seat on the Supreme Court of the United States is a heady jump for a small-town girl.

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