Ruth Bad­er Gins­burg (1933 – 2020) was Asso­ciate Jus­tice of the Unit­ed States Supreme Court. Born in Brook­lyn, New York, she received her BA from Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty, attend­ed Har­vard Law School, and received her LLB from Colum­bia Law School. From 1959 to 1961, Gins­burg served as a law clerk to the Hon­or­able Edmund L. Palmieri, Judge of the Unit­ed States Dis­trict Court for the South­ern Dis­trict of New York. She was a pro­fes­sor of law at Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ty School of Law (1963 – 1972) and at Colum­bia Law School (1972 – 1980). She was appoint­ed a judge of the Unit­ed States Court of Appeals for the Dis­trict of Colum­bia Cir­cuit in 1980. Then-pres­i­dent Clin­ton nom­i­nat­ed her as Asso­ciate Jus­tice of the Supreme Court, and she took her seat on August 10, 1993. Jus­tice Gins­burg died on Sep­tem­ber 18, 2020, as this book was going into production.