Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg (born March 15, 1933) is an Associate Justice

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

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 of the Supreme Court of the United States

Supreme Court of the United States

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. Ginsburg was appointed by President Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

 and took the oath of office on August 10, 1993. She is the second female justice (after Sandra Day O'Connor

Sandra Day O'Connor

Sandra Day O'Connor is an American jurist who was the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States. She served as an Associate Justice from 1981 until her retirement from the Court in 2006. O'Connor was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981...

) and the first Jewish female justice.

She is generally viewed as belonging to the liberal wing of the Court. Ginsburg spent a considerable portion of her career as an advocate for the equal citizenship status of women and men

Women's rights

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 as a constitutional principle.