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Court Nominee is Stanford Graduate

July 7, 1981

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Type: Newspaper article
Author: Times Wire Services
Source: Los Angeles Times
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Judge Sandra D. O'Connor, President Reagan 's choice for the Supreme Court, was graduated from Stanford University Law School in 1952, with the Order of the Coif. Among her law school classmates was Supreme Court Just ice William H. Rehnquist. She was a member of the board of editors of the Stanford Law Review and was on the Stanford Board of Trustees from 1976-80. She married another classmate, John Jay O'Connor III, now a Phoenix lawyer. They have three sons. Born in Duncan, Ariz., to a ranching family, she was a politician before her appointment to the Arizona bench, becoming majority leader of the Senate in 1973- the first and only woman to hold the job in either house of the state Legislature. "She was a super floor leader for lots of reasons, " said Republican William Jacquin , president of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and president of the Senate when O'Connor was majority leader .

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