Sandra Day O'Connor - Sandra Day O'Connor is a retired Associate Justice. She was born in El Paso, Texas, March 26, 1930. She received her B.A. and LL.B. from Stanford University.
She served as Deputy County Attorney of San Mateo County, California from 1952-1953 and as a civilian attorney for Quartermaster Market Center, Frankfurt, Germany from 1954-1957.
From 1958-1960, she practiced law in Maryvale, Arizona, and served as Assistant Attorney General of Arizona from 1965-1969. She was appointed to the Arizona State Senate in 1969 and was subsequently reelected to two two-year terms. In 1975 she was elected Judge of the Maricopa County Superior Court and served until 1979, when she was appointed to the Arizona Court of Appeals.
President Reagan nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and she took her seat September 25, 1981. Justice O'Connor retired from the Supreme Court on January 31, 2006.
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor outlined her big idea on the first day of the festival: that young people will become engaged in civics and public life.
She is working with a team including MacArthur Foundation to develop innovative online and computer games to explain government and civics to young people.
The idea is kind. unfortunate the education system has no inspiration to the youth of the day.
Except the wealthy kids who are force to continue on .
education in america must change complete. but in the way it will go on in the right wing neo con deception of democracy. be a police man instead and punish the ones who are not like us. games are the problem truth is denied!.