Sophie Moll

Dec 1, 2023 | houstonpublicmedia.org | Nina Totenberg |Sophie Moll |Abner Fletcher

Sandra Day O'Connor being sworn in as the first female Supreme Court Justice on Sept. 9, 1981. She served for more than a quarter of a century. She died at 93. (Photo Credit: Wally McNamee/Corbis)O’Connor during her college years. At age 10, she was sent away to school in El Paso, and at age 16 she enrolled at Stanford, eventually graduating from law school third in her class.