O’Connor learned to be independent from her childhood spent among adults and away from her parents, excelling at school in El Paso and skipping two grades. Returning to the ranch during summers, she learned from her father at a young age to drive, mend fences, shoot a rifle and ride with the cowboys. O’Connor was sent to live with her grandmother at age 6 to attend school in El Paso as there were no good schools nearby. The ranch had no running water or electricity until O’Connor was seven years old and finances were tight, but Harry and Ada Mae subscribed to the Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, and other periodicals which mother and daughter read together. In her early childhood, she lived with her parents on a remote cattle ranch, Lazy B, near Duncan, Arizona (25 miles away from town down a dirt road) her sister and brother were not born until O’Connor was eight and ten years old. Sandra Day was born on March 26, 1930, in El Paso, Texas to her rancher father, Harry, and mother, Ada Mae.
She dealt with indignities ranging from having to accept a job for no pay after she graduated from law school to the lack of a women’s restroom at the Supreme Court when she was first confirmed – in doing so, paving the way for the women who followed. Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female Supreme Court Justice of the United States, was one of the most influential Americans of the 1980s and 1990s.
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