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Interviews, Speeches, Books and Writings by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

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Remarks to Associated Women Students at A.S.U.
May 7, 1970 | Speech
Remarks to Associated Women Students at A. S. U. May 7, 1970 , by Senator Sandra D. O'Connor President Newburn , Mrs. Gammage, Mrs. Beutler, Mrs. Valikai, Miss Hutt , Miss Murphy , and Guests: I am very honored to be here tonight as your guest spe...

Form letter on Equal Rights AmendmentForm letter on Equal Rights Amendment
February 18, 1974 | Letter
February 18, 1974 Dear Mrs. __________: Thank you for your letter concerning the Equal Rights Amendment. There is a saying that two things are certain-death and taxes. A third certainty is that the Thirty-first Legislature will not ratify the Equal R...

Arizona Historymakers Interview
January 31, 1980 | Interview
Arizona Historymakers ™ Oral History Transcript Historical League, Inc. © 2018 Historymakers is a registered trademark of Historical League, Inc. SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR 1930 Honored as a Historymaker 1992 First Woman Justice of the U.S. Supreme Co...

Trends in the Relationship Between the Federal and State Courts from the Perspective of a State Court JudgeTrends in the Relationship Between the Federal and State Courts from the Perspective of a State Court Judge
June 1981 | Law review article
TRENDS IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE FEDERAL AND STATE COURTS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A STATE COURT JUDGE SANDRA D. O'CONNOR* We live in an imperfect world. Most people would agree our court system suffers from some of that imperfection. We appea...

Press conference after announcement of nomination to Supreme Court
July 7, 1981 | Interview
Judge O'Connor Remarks Good morning. This is a momentous day in my life and the life of my family and I'm extremely happy and honored to have been nominated by President Reagan for a position on the United States Supreme Court. If I am confirmed in t...

Confirmation hearings in the United States Senate on Justice O'Connor's nomination to the Supreme Court
September 9, 1981 | Testimony
The CHAIRMAN. Judge O'Connor, we will now give you the opportunity to present an opening statement if you care to do so. TESTIMONY OF HON. SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR, NOMINATED TO BE ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT Judge O'CONNOR. Thank you, ...

Stanford commencement speech, 1982: The Individual Often Does Make A Difference In Society Stanford commencement speech, 1982: The Individual Often Does Make A Difference In Society
June 16, 1982 | Speech, Newspaper article
Try to resolve some disputes outside the courts, O'Connor advises graduates An informed, reasoned effort by one citizen can have a dramatic impact on how ... a legislator will vote and act. -Sandra Day O'Connor Following is the 1982 commencement ...

Professional Competence and Social Responsibility: Fulfilling the Vanderbilt VisionProfessional Competence and Social Responsibility: Fulfilling the Vanderbilt Vision
September 24, 1982 | Law review article, Speech
VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW VOLUME 36 JANUARY 1983 NUMBER 1 Professional Competence and Social Responsibility: Fulfilling the Vanderbilt Vision* Sandra Day O'Connor** It is a great pleasure to visit Vanderbilt Law School and to dedicate the Alyne Queen...

Foreword (to Commemorative Edition: 75th Anniversary of New England School of Law)Foreword (to Commemorative Edition: 75th Anniversary of New England School of Law)
January 1983 | Law review article
FOREWORD Justice Sandra Day O'Connor* This year the New England School of Law will commemorate its 75th anniversary. Appropriately, the New England Law Review will publish in this issue articles addressing law school education today, and the histor...

Legal Education and Social Responsibility / The Moral Role of the LawyerLegal Education and Social Responsibility / The Moral Role of the Lawyer
October 24, 1984 | Law review article, Speech
LEGAL EDUCATION AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR* I am very pleased to be present here today, October 24, 1984, for the dedication of Fordham Law School's expanded facility. I think I should acknowledge and thank in part for my invitat...

Our Judicial FederalismOur Judicial Federalism
November 13, 1984 | Law review article, Speech
Case Western Reserve Law Review Volume 35 1984-85 Number 1 OUR JUDICIAL FEDERALISM* Justice Sandra Day O'Connor** IN PREPARING for today's talk I knew you might like to hear how I set about deciding cases, just what really goes on inside the Cour...

Introduction: Achievements of Women in the Legal Profession
January 1985 | Law review article

Foreword: The Changing Role of the Circuit JusticeForeword: The Changing Role of the Circuit Justice
March 1, 1986 | Law review article
FOREWORD: THE CHANGING ROLE OF THE CIRCUIT JUSTICE Sandra Day O'Connor"' A S Circuit Justice for the Sixth Circuit, I was invited by the Board of Editors of the University of Toledo Law Review to introduce this year's Survey of Sixth Circuit Law. ...

Reflections on Preclusion of Judicial Review in England and the United StatesReflections on Preclusion of Judicial Review in England and the United States
June 1986 | Law review article
REFLECTIONS ON PRECLUSION OF JUDICIAL REVIEW IN ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR* INTRODUCTIONLord Diplock said that he regarded "progress towards a compre hensive system of administrative law... as having been the great est achiev...

Interview with Bill Moyers - "In Search of the Constitution"Interview with Bill Moyers - "In Search of the Constitution"
January 1987 | Interview, TV appearance
Bill Moyers Justice O'Connor will not discuss the controversial issues that keep coming to the court. abortion. Above all, she says as do other justices, that it would be improper for her to do so. But one of her major opinions on the court has cau...

A Tribute to Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
December 1, 1987 | Law review article
VOLUME 101 DECEMBER 1987 NUMBER 2 HARVARD LAW REVIEW A TRIBUTE TO JUSTICE LEWIS F. POWELL, JR. Sandra Day O'Connor* Changes in the composition of the Supreme Court are both inevitable and inevitably significant. As the law and the nation are to ...

Speech at Women and the Constitution ConferenceSpeech at Women and the Constitution Conference
February 11, 1988 | Speech
Sandra Day O'Connor Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Sandra Day O'Connor Thank you very much, Dean Knowles, Mrs. Carter, and Mrs. Johnson, and Ms. Powell and participants and guess this is a very special event. The bicentennial of our Constitution ...

Landon Lecture at Kansas State UniversityLandon Lecture at Kansas State University
February 16, 1988 | Speech
Sandra Day O'Connor Thank you. Thank you President Wefald and Chairman Slawson, students and friends of Kansas State University. john and i are absolutely delighted to be here and then happen with you at the university. And you're showing some very ...

Establishing JusticeEstablishing Justice
May 6, 1988 | Law review article, Speech
Establishing Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Edilors Note: This paper was delivered by Justice O'Co nnor as the Society's Thirteenth Annual Lecture on May 6, 1988. This paper is the text of that speech. Precisely 201 years ago in Philadelphia, 1 55 de...

Address to the National Judicial CollegeAddress to the National Judicial College
October 8, 1988 | Interview
Unknown Speaker We have all seen the symbol of justice. A lady a woman gives me a woman blindfolded with the pans of justice being impartially balanced, how long it took us to realize that real justice needed a real woman. But thank God for Sandra D...

Header photo: Justice O'Connor in September 2011. Credit: Matt Rourke, AP.