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Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, died Friday, the high court said. She was 93.

<div><div><div><p><strong>WASHINGTON (NEWSnet/AP) —</strong> Retired Justice Sandra Day O&#39;Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, died Friday, the high court said. She was 93.</p></div></div>
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<div><div><p>O&#39;Connor was appointed by former President Ronald Reagan in 1981. She retired in 2006.</p></div></div>
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<div><div><p>She was born in 1930 El Paso, Texas; and received her law degree in 1952 from Stanford.</p></div></div>

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<div><div><p>At the time of her Supreme Court nomination, according to the Sandra Day O&#39;Connor Institute for American Democracy, she was the first person appointed as an associate justice in 24 years who had state court experience; additionally the first justice in 32 years with lawmaking experience having served in a state legislature.</p></div></div>
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<div><div><p>Adding perspective to her appointment as a woman, the institute said &#34;only 2 percent of law students were women at the time she attended in the 1950s. By the time she retired in 2006, that percentage had risen to 48 percent.&#34;</p></div></div>
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<div><div><p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report. Copyright 2023 NEWSnet and The Associated Press. All rights reserved.</em></p></div></div>

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