Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died, the Court announced Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. Ginsburg, born Joan Ruth Bader on March 15, 1933, in Brooklyn, excelled in academia from a young age, graduating at the top of her Cornell University class in 1954, and first in her class at Columbia Law School in 1959. As a wife and young mother, facing huge gender-based discrimination hurdles, she continued to break barriers. In 1972, Ginsburg became the first female professor at Columbia to earn tenure and co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union’s Women’s Rights Project. She oversaw over 300 gender discrimination cases for the ACLU in the 1970s, including arguing six cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1980, she was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia by President Carter and in 1993, President Clinton appointed her to the U.S. Supreme Court.