Annual Timeline

2006

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

In 2006, Justice O'Connor was serving as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court until, after nearly 25 years of service, she retired on January 31.

Calendar year 2006 included the U.S. Supreme Court terms 2005 and 2006.

Justice O'Connor wrote 1 Supreme Court opinion and gave 12 speeches or interviews during the year.

 January

 

Coverage - Law review article

A Good Judge, by Craig Joyce

 

Coverage - Law review article

In Praise of Contextuality: Justice O'Connor and the Establishment Clause, by Marie A. Failinger

 

Coverage - Law review article

In-Version, by John K. Setear

 

Coverage - Law review article

Justice O'Connor's Twenty-Five Year Expectation: The Legitimacy of Durational Limits in Grutter, by Joel K. Goldstein

 

Coverage - Law review article

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: No Insurmountable Hurdles, by Scott Bales

 

Coverage - Law review article

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor: The Framers’ “First Woman”, by Deborah Jones Merritt

 

Law review article

Remembering Rehnquist

 

Coverage - Law review article

The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Sandra Day O'Connor: A Refusal to ‘Foreclose the Unanticipated’, by Wilson Ray Huhn

 

Coverage - Law review article

The Federalism Decisions of Justices Rehnquist and O'Connor: Is Half a Loaf Enough? by Richard A. Epstein

 

Coverage - Law review article

Tribute to Justice O'Connor, by John Paul Stevens

17

Supreme Court Opinion

Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New Eng

31

Event

Steps down as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Begins to serve as a visiting judge at U.S. Circuit Courts around the country, maintaining chambers at the Supreme Court and continuing to hire law clerks

 February

1

Event

First meeting held to plan the relocation of the historic O'Connor House (Barbara Barrett, Gay Wray, and Justice and John O'Connor meet to discuss the fate of the O'Connor family home, a sun-dried adobe brick house which was slated for demolition by its new owner.)

 

Coverage - Law review article

Justice O'Connor and the ‘Right to Die’: Constitutional Promises Unfulfilled, by Michael P. Allen

 March

 

Coverage - Book

Sandra Day O'Connor: Justice in the Balance (Women's Biography Series), by Ann Carey McFeatters

 

Coverage - Law review article

Afterword, Lazy B and the Nation’s Court: Pragmatism in the Service of Principle, by Craig Joyce

 

Coverage - Law review article

A Tribute to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

 

Coverage - Law review article

A Tribute to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, by Stephen G. Breyer

 

Coverage - Law review article

A Tribute to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, by Ruth V. McGregor

 

Coverage - Law review article

A Tribute to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, by Glen D. Nager

 

Coverage - Law review article

A Tribute to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, by Kathleen Sullivan

6

Speech

Acceptance speech for the National Association of Women Judges' Lifetime Achievement Award

6

Award

Receives Life Time Achievement Award from The National Association of Women Judges Association

8

Speech

Speech at the National Women's History Month Celebration

10

Coverage - Radio appearance

"O'Connor Decries Republican Attacks on Courts", by Nina Totenberg

17

Law review article / Speech

"Response" (The Legacy of Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice O'Connor)

25

Newspaper article

"Not By Math Alone"

26

Event

Turns 76 years old

 April

 

Coverage - Law review article

Justice O'Connor and the Rule of Law, by Eric J. Segall

 

Coverage - Law review article

O’Connor’s Copyright Legacy, by Matthew K. Dames

 

Coverage - Law review article

Problems with Minimalism, by Cass R. Sunstein

 

Coverage - Law review article

The Assumptions of Federalism, by Erwin Chemerinsky

 

Coverage - Law review article

William Rehnquist and Sandra Day O'Connor: An Expression of Appreciation, by Anthony M. Kennedy

 

Coverage - Law review article

A Wise Justice, and a Great Boss, by Michelle T. Friedland

17

Speech

Speech to the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools

 September

1

Law review article / Speech

Fair and Independent Courts

 

Coverage - Law review article

Impeachment Calls and Death Threats: Assessing Criticisms of the Death Penalty Jurisprudence of Justices Kennedy and O'Connor, by Susan Raeker-Jordan

19

Honorary Degree

Receives honorary Doctor of Laws from Elon University School of Law

27

Op ed

"The Threat to Judicial Independence"

28

Speech / Law review article

Speech on judicial independence at Georgetown University

 December

6

Interview / TV appearance

Interview on "Hardball with Chris Matthews"

6

Speech

Remarks on the release of the Iraq Study Group Report