Former Supreme Court Justice, First Woman to Serve on the Court, Sandra Day O’Connor Dead at 93

Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to have been nominated and subsequently be appointed to serve on the Supreme Court, has died Friday at the age of 93. The Supreme Court announced her death this morning, stating that she had succumbed to complications of a combination of dementia, Alzheimer’s, and a respiratory illness. O’Connor left public life in October of 018 when she released a statement that she was withdrawing from public life due to the recent diagnosis of dementia, “probably Alzheimer’s disease.” Read More