Of her writing in the cases on which she represented the minority view, she told National Public Radio’s Nina Totenberg, “Dissents speak to a future age. Her laser-focused questioning during legal arguments was often cited as influencing the perspectives of her fellow jurists, and her legal writings continue to inspire heated debate. But her influence extended well beyond the opinions on which her name appears.

Bollinger) and helping establish the right of people with mental disabilities to be fully integrated into their communities (Olmstead v. Virginia), upholding affirmative action at Michigan Law School (Grutter v. On the high court, she authored opinions striking down an all-male admissions policy at the Virginia Military Institute (United States v. The subject of a documentary film that took its title from the initials of her name and referenced the rapper Notorious B.I.G., Ginsburg grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and, after graduating first in her class from Columbia Law School, went on to successfully argue five gender discrimination cases before the Supreme Court. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court, died Friday at the age of 87.Īppointed to the high court in 1993 by then President Bill Clinton, Ginsburg quickly became one of the most respected justices in history, one whose intelligence, incisive opinions and dissents on an increasingly conservative court made her a liberal and feminist icon.

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