On March 15, 1933, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born in Brooklyn, New York. Jane and James, her daughter and son, were born to her and Martin D. Ginsburg, her husband, in 1954. She attended Harvard Law School for her B.A., Columbia Law School for her LL.B., and Cornell University for her B.A. From 1959 to 1961, she worked as a law clerk for Judge Edmund L. Palmieri of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She worked as an associate director of the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure from 1961 to 1963. She was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California, from 1977 to 1978, as well as a professor of law at Rutgers University School of Law from 1963 to 1972 and Columbia Law School from 1972 to 1980. She co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union's Women's Rights Project in 1971, served as the ACLU's General Counsel from 1973 to 1980, and served on the National Board of Directors from 1974 to 1980. She was on the American Bar Foundation's Board and Executive Committee from 1979 to 1989, the American Bar Association Journal's Board of Editors from 1972 to 1978, and the American Law Institute's Council from 1978 to 1993. In 1980, she was given the position of Judge of the District of Columbia Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals. She was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by President Clinton, and she took office on August 10, 1993. In 2020, Justice Ginsburg passed away on September 18.