The Loneliness of the Sole Female US Supreme Court Justice
Serving as the only woman on the U.S. Supreme Court is an isolating job, says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
“It’s lonely for me,” she said Friday at an Ohio State University symposium, reports the Associated Press. “Not that I don’t love all my colleagues. I do.”
Describing her job as the best—and the hardest—she’s ever had, the 76-year-old Ginsburg says she misses her former female colleague, ex-Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who retired in 2006.
Sometimes, Ginsburg told the students, she wonders what the audience thinks when they see her as the sole representative of her sex on the nation’s top court bench. “There I am all alone, and it doesn’t look right,” she said.
In an earlier take on the same symposium, Ginsburg talked about how she sees no problem with a controversial practice of looking to the law of foreign countries as persuasive authority.
Updated at 3:34 p.m. to include link to earlier ABAJournal.com post.
