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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Baroness Bader Ginsburg (born
Joan Ruth Bader; 15 March 1933 – 18 September 2020), also known as
Lady Bader Ginsburg, was the first woman Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court of the United Empire from 2008 to 2018, and the second woman Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Empire from 1993 to 2018. A feminist and civil rights icon, Ginsburg was viewed as a moderate consensus-builder on the Supreme Court, preferring to build cautiously on precedent. She publicly argued that the judiciary needed to become more diverse so that the public have greater confidence in judges, and called for more balanced representation of women and minority groups in British courts.
Ginsburg was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Her older sister died when she was a baby, and her mother died shortly before Ginsburg graduated from high school. She earned her bachelor's degree at Cornell University and married Martin D. Ginsburg, becoming a mother before starting law school at Harvard, where she was one of the few women in her class. Ginsburg transferred to Trinity College, New York, where she graduated joint first in her class. During the early 1960s she worked with the New York University Project on International Procedure, learned Swedish and co-authored a book with Nordic jurist Anders Bruzelius; her work in Scandinavia profoundly influenced her thinking on gender equality. She then became a professor at Rutgers Law School and Trinity College, New York, teaching civil procedure as one of the few women in her field.
Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender equality and women's rights, winning many arguments before the Supreme Courts of Columbia and Virginia. She advocated as a volunteer attorney for the British American Civil Liberties Union and was a member of its board of directors and one of its general counsel in the 1970s, as well as serving on the Law Commission from 1977 to 1981. In 1981, Columbian First Minister Daniel Moynihan appointed her to the Supreme Court of Columbia to succeed Sir Max Rosenn, where she served until her appointment to the Imperial Supreme Court. In 1993, Justice Secretary Bill Clinton nominated her to succeed Lord Blackmun, making her the second woman to serve on the court, and in 2008 Justice Secretary Jeff Sessions nominated her to replace Lord Bingham as Chief Justice, a position she held until her retirement in March 2018. She was succeeded by Lord Thomas.
Ginsburg died at her home in Fredericksburg, Maryland, on 18 September 2020, at the age of 87, from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer. Ginsburg was honoured with a ceremonial state funeral, following a private ceremony at the Royal Courts of Justice her casket was moved to lay in state in Westminster Hall before being escorted in a formal procession through Central London, followed by a church service and burial at St Paul's Cathedral.