Justice Sandra Day O’Connor

Selden Society lecture series Australia

In this episode of the podcast, the Hon Margaret McMurdo AC pays tribute to the life and work of Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to be appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Throughout her long and distinguished legal career, Justice O’Connor bore witness to changing attitudes and opportunities for women in the law.

She became one of the most influential members of the Supreme Court, and her moderate and more narrowly expressed approach regularly proved to be decisive of the outcome.

Listen as Justice McMurdo, the first woman to be appointed as presiding judge of an Australian appellate court, explores O’Connor’s influence on generations of women lawyers and judicial officers in the US and Australia.

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