US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 87, died on September 18, 2020 from complications caused by metastatic pancreatic cancer. She was considered a giant in the legal world, who argued cases before the Supreme Court to expand, in stages, the ambit of the US Constitution’s 14th Amendment on equal protection to cover gender discrimination.
She was the first tenured professor at Columbia Law School before she was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals as a judge (second woman in that position). She was appointed to the Supreme Court by the then US President, Bill Clinton, in 1993. She became a liberal icon through her support for gender equality, women’s rights, same sex marriage, strengthening the Voting Rights Act, etc. The stature of the justice extended from feminism and law as Ms. Ginsburg, in recent years, become an icon in popular culture.