Lincoln (Neb.) - Oct. 15, 2001 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will speak at the University of Nebraska College of Law on Oct. 18.
Her address will begin at noon in the College of Law auditorium in Ross McCollum Hall, East Campus Loop and Fair Street. It is free and open to the public.
O'Connor was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1981 by President Ronald Reagan. Before joining the court, she served on the Arizona Court of Appeals from 1979 to 1981 and the Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix from 1975 to 1979. She was an Arizona state senator from 1969 to 1975, assistant attorney general in Arizona from 1965 to 1969, and a practicing attorney in the public and private sectors from 1952 to 1960.
She earned her LL.B. degree at Stanford University (1952), where she
was a member of the board of editors of the Stanford Law Review and Order
of the Coif.
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