Profile of Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg

From Wikipedia. Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg (born March 15, 1933) is an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. Ginsburg was appointed by Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1993 and generally votes with the liberal wing of the court. She is the second female Justice — Sandra Day O'Connor was the first — and the first Jewish woman to serve on the Court.

Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg spent a considerable portion of her career as an advocate for the equal citizenship status of women and men as a constitutional principle. She engaged in advocacy as a volunteer lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, and was a member of its board of directors and one of its general counsel in the 1970s. She served as a professor at Rutgers School of Law—Newark and Columbia Law School. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
In 1999, Ginsburg had surgery for colorectal cancer and underwent chemotherapy for eight months. On February 5, 2009, she was hospitalized at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for surgery relating to pancreatic cancer.
On September 24, 2009, Ginsburg was hospitalized after exhibiting symptoms of anemia for which she received an iron infusion.