In 1974 she took on a different challenge and ran for the position of judge in the Maricopa County Superior Court, winning the race. A conservative Republican, O'Connor won reelection twice. In 1969, O'Connor received a state senate appointment by Governor Jack Williams to fill a vacancy. There she worked at a private practice before returning to public service, acting as the state's assistant attorney general from 1965-69.Political Party She returned home in 1958 and settled in Arizona. She soon became deputy county attorney.įrom 1954-57, O'Connor moved overseas and served as a civilian lawyer for the Quartermaster Masker Center in Frankfurt, Germany. With opportunities for female lawyers very limited at the time, O'Connor struggled to find a job and worked without pay for the county attorney of California's San Mateo region just to get her foot in the door. She later wrote about her rough and tumble childhood in her memoir, Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest, published in 2002.Īfter graduating from Stanford University in 1950 with a bachelor’s degree in economics, O’Connor attended the university’s law school and received her degree in 1952, graduating third in her class. O'Connor was adept at riding and assisted with ranch duties. Early Life, Education & Careerīorn on March 26, 1930, in El Paso, Texas, O'Connor spent part of her youth on her family's Arizona ranch.
She retired in 2006 after serving for 24 years. O'Connor was a key swing vote in many important cases, including the upholding of Roe v. She received unanimous Senate approval and made history as the first woman justice to serve on the nation's highest court. In 1981, Ronald Reagan nominated her to the U.S. Sandra Day O'Connor was elected to two terms in the Arizona state senate.
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