It was 14 years ago today that Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court.
On July 1, 2005, Justice O'Connor announced her retirement in a letter to President George W. Bush.
As President Ronald Reagan's first appointee, Justice O'Connor joined the bench in 1981 as the first female justice to sit on the nation's highest court.
At first, progressives around the country applauded the appointment, but feminist enthusiasm quickly cooled when, in her first year on the Court, O'Connor earned a reputation for joining the well-established conservative alliance between Justices Warren Burger and William Rehnquist.
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