First: Sandra Day O'Connor

by Evan Thomas

Sandra’s father was willing to pay the $600 law school tuition (about $6,300 in 2018 dollars).

Dividing up assets in a divorce case, she drew on her experience as a mother who would have one child slice the pizza, the other child choose which slice.

The time to worry about a decision, she said, is before it is

the spirit of Liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right”),

O’Connor noticed that the corridor’s billboards were plastered with notices from various race- and gender-based student groups: blacks, Hispanics, Asians, women. “She was appalled,” Syverud recalled. O’Connor asked, “Is this what diversity is going to be all about?” She disliked victimhood and identity politics. “She was very annoyed about the idea of a ‘woman’s point of view,’ ” said Syverud.

to her, separatism and tribalism undermined the civic understanding she held as her greatest ideal.