
19. Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Honorable Sandra Day O'Connor, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Women Judges. The gala reception, which featured remarks by Chief Justice, Honorable John G. Roberts, Jr., and Associate Justice, Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, took place at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., on March 6, 2006. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM

1. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaking during a panel discussion with Justice Sonia Sotomayor, at the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress, during an event organized by the Ronald Reagan Institute celebrating Justice Sandra Day OConnor, in Washington, D.C., on September 25, 2019. Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM

2. People gather on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. to mourn the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, on Friday, September 18, 2020. Photo: Tony Mauro/ALM

3. 1972: Ruth Bader Ginsburg returns to her law school alma mater as a professor to teach courses on civil procedure as well as a course and a clinical seminar on sex discrimination law. Ruth Bader Ginsburg '59 is appointed the first female member of the Columbia Law School faculty in 1972. She had taught previously at Columbia in International Civil Procedure with Prof. Hans Smit '58 in 1961. She is the first female candidate to earn tenure at Columbia Law School. Photo: Columbia Law School

4. 1959: The Columbia Law School yearbook portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who graduates tied for first in the Class of 1959. Scanned from printed yearbook. Ruth Bader Ginsburg earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1959, after having completed two years of study at Harvard Law School. Her husband, Martin Ginsburg, had taken a job at a Manhattan law firm, and in 1958 they moved to New York with their young daughter, Jane, now a Columbia Law School professor in intellectual property law. Justice Ginsburg was one of only 11 women in the graduating class (of 288) and the only woman on the Columbia Law Review that year. Photo: Columbia Law School
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5. Pictured: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The body of the late Justice Antonin Scalia is brought out of the Basilica National Shrine Immaculate Conception after a funeral Mass before his burial on Saturday, February 20, 2016. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM.

6. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM

7. A woman with a "Notorious R.B.G." t-shirt at Georgetown University Law Center. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM

8. Custom LEGO minifigures of the first four female justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: (l-r) Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sandra Day O'Connor, and Elena Kagan. Credit: Maia Weinstock

9. Brooklyn residents take pieces of cake to celebrate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's birthday on Friday, March 15, 2019 near Brooklyn Borough Hall. Photo by David Handschuh/ALM
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10. (l-r) Justices Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sandra Day O'Connor, and Sonia Sotomayor, during an event held at the National Museum of Women in the Arts honoring Justice O'Connor with the Seneca Women Global Leadership Award. April 15, 2015. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM.

11. Justices Sonia Sotomayor (left) and Ruth Bader Ginsburg (center) with Justice Elena Kagan in the Justices' Conference Room prior to Justice Kagan's Investiture Ceremony. Photo: Steve Petteway

12. The Supreme Court held a special sitting on June 15, 2017, for the formal investiture ceremony of Associate Justice Neil M. Gorsuch. President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attended as guests of the Court. Members of the Supreme Court with Trump in the Justices Conference Room at a courtesy visit prior to the investiture ceremony. From left to right: Associate Justices Elena Kagan, Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Anthony M. Kennedy, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., President Trump, and Associate Justices Neil M. Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, Stephen G. Breyer, and Sonia Sotomayor. Photo: Curator's Office, U.S. Supreme Court.

13. 1998: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg '59 joins (left to right) Columbia President George Rupp, former Columbia Law School Dean William C. Warren, and then-Dean David Leebron for the 1998 ribbon cutting ceremony of William C. Warren Hall (aka Little Warren). From Fall 1998 Report: Well over 100 people attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony for William C. Warren Hall. Photo: Columbia Law School

14. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor. ©Ken Heinen, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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15. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg works out. Throughout her bouts with cancer, Ginsburg maintained an exercise routine and a heavy work schedule at the high court.

16. Ruth Bader Ginsburg bobblehead. Courtesy of Fctry

17. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, left, and Judge Merrick Garland, right, preside over the Don Quixote mock trial at the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Sidney Harman Hall. May 11, 2015. Photo: Kevin Allen

18. Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law escorts Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg from the stage after she spoke at NYU Law School on Monday, Feb. 5th, 2018. Photo by David Handschuh/ALM

19. Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Honorable Sandra Day O'Connor, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Women Judges. The gala reception, which featured remarks by Chief Justice, Honorable John G. Roberts, Jr., and Associate Justice, Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, took place at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., on March 6, 2006. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM

1. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaking during a panel discussion with Justice Sonia Sotomayor, at the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress, during an event organized by the Ronald Reagan Institute celebrating Justice Sandra Day OConnor, in Washington, D.C., on September 25, 2019. Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM

2. People gather on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. to mourn the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, on Friday, September 18, 2020. Photo: Tony Mauro/ALM

3. 1972: Ruth Bader Ginsburg returns to her law school alma mater as a professor to teach courses on civil procedure as well as a course and a clinical seminar on sex discrimination law. Ruth Bader Ginsburg '59 is appointed the first female member of the Columbia Law School faculty in 1972. She had taught previously at Columbia in International Civil Procedure with Prof. Hans Smit '58 in 1961. She is the first female candidate to earn tenure at Columbia Law School. Photo: Columbia Law School

4. 1959: The Columbia Law School yearbook portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who graduates tied for first in the Class of 1959. Scanned from printed yearbook. Ruth Bader Ginsburg earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1959, after having completed two years of study at Harvard Law School. Her husband, Martin Ginsburg, had taken a job at a Manhattan law firm, and in 1958 they moved to New York with their young daughter, Jane, now a Columbia Law School professor in intellectual property law. Justice Ginsburg was one of only 11 women in the graduating class (of 288) and the only woman on the Columbia Law Review that year. Photo: Columbia Law School
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5. Pictured: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The body of the late Justice Antonin Scalia is brought out of the Basilica National Shrine Immaculate Conception after a funeral Mass before his burial on Saturday, February 20, 2016. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM.

6. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM

7. A woman with a "Notorious R.B.G." t-shirt at Georgetown University Law Center. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM

8. Custom LEGO minifigures of the first four female justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: (l-r) Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sandra Day O'Connor, and Elena Kagan. Credit: Maia Weinstock

9. Brooklyn residents take pieces of cake to celebrate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's birthday on Friday, March 15, 2019 near Brooklyn Borough Hall. Photo by David Handschuh/ALM
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10. (l-r) Justices Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sandra Day O'Connor, and Sonia Sotomayor, during an event held at the National Museum of Women in the Arts honoring Justice O'Connor with the Seneca Women Global Leadership Award. April 15, 2015. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM.

11. Justices Sonia Sotomayor (left) and Ruth Bader Ginsburg (center) with Justice Elena Kagan in the Justices' Conference Room prior to Justice Kagan's Investiture Ceremony. Photo: Steve Petteway

12. The Supreme Court held a special sitting on June 15, 2017, for the formal investiture ceremony of Associate Justice Neil M. Gorsuch. President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attended as guests of the Court. Members of the Supreme Court with Trump in the Justices Conference Room at a courtesy visit prior to the investiture ceremony. From left to right: Associate Justices Elena Kagan, Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Anthony M. Kennedy, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., President Trump, and Associate Justices Neil M. Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, Stephen G. Breyer, and Sonia Sotomayor. Photo: Curator's Office, U.S. Supreme Court.

13. 1998: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg '59 joins (left to right) Columbia President George Rupp, former Columbia Law School Dean William C. Warren, and then-Dean David Leebron for the 1998 ribbon cutting ceremony of William C. Warren Hall (aka Little Warren). From Fall 1998 Report: Well over 100 people attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony for William C. Warren Hall. Photo: Columbia Law School

14. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor. ©Ken Heinen, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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15. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg works out. Throughout her bouts with cancer, Ginsburg maintained an exercise routine and a heavy work schedule at the high court.

16. Ruth Bader Ginsburg bobblehead. Courtesy of Fctry

17. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, left, and Judge Merrick Garland, right, preside over the Don Quixote mock trial at the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Sidney Harman Hall. May 11, 2015. Photo: Kevin Allen

18. Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law escorts Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg from the stage after she spoke at NYU Law School on Monday, Feb. 5th, 2018. Photo by David Handschuh/ALM

19. Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Honorable Sandra Day O'Connor, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Women Judges. The gala reception, which featured remarks by Chief Justice, Honorable John G. Roberts, Jr., and Associate Justice, Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, took place at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., on March 6, 2006. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks at Columbia Law School which held a special event to honor the 25th anniversary of Justice Ginsburgs investiture as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. (Photo by David Handschuh/ALM)[/caption] The sudden death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg left the nation in mourning as tributes came in from across the country. Ginsburg, 87, died Friday Sept. 18 from complications of metastatic pancreas cancer, according to a court spokeswoman. Related: What Justice Ginsburg's death means for the ACA President Bill Clinton nominated Ginsburg to the high court in 1993, making her the second female justice in the nation's history. Ginsburg became a cultural icon of sorts during her career, appearing on T-shirts, in a Lego set, and was portrayed in shows such as "Saturday Night Live." Here's a look back at the justice's career through the years:

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