In 1993, President Bill Clinton nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice Byron White. This fact sheet about her and the list of cases she had argued or briefed was prepared by the Clinton administration during the vetting process, when President Clinton was considering who to nominate to fill the vacancy.
Ginsburg had been the co-founder of and chief litigator for the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). This career provided her with experience arguing six cases before the Supreme Court, all dealing in some way with gender discrimination.
Notably, Ginsburg had been one of only nine women in a Harvard Law School class of over 500, and the first woman to serve on both the Harvard Law Review and the Columbia Law Review.
In 1980, President Jimmy Carter had appointed Ginsburg as a judge to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where she served for 13 years.
On August 3, 1993, Ginsburg was confirmed by a 96-3 vote in the Senate. She was sworn in as Associate Supreme Court Justice on August 10, 1993.
