Sandra Day Oconnor

             "From O"Connor's rural childhood to her career through a profession that is dominated by men, she always found away to resort to a solution as she worked and promoted through out the Justice System."(Paton 2000) "This predisposition to moderate, improved her importance in the System."(Holland 1997).
             In order to fully demonstrate that Sandra Day O"Connor has had an impact on the way our society is diverse, it is important to elaborate on her background. This way it will be easier to understand that Sandra's background is extremely diverse from the historic judicial background of a male in the Supreme Court system. Her background displays a lot of events that took place where diversity and gender labeling occurred.
             On March 26, 1930, in El Paso Texas Sandra Day O"Connor was born. Her parents owned the Lazy-B- Cattle Ranch in southeastern Arizona. O"Connor grew up on that Ranch, where she faced a hard time. Until the age of seven she did not receive water or electricity. Most of her childhood was in isolation; due to her nearest neighbors were 25 miles away. When Sandra was eight years old, her younger sister was born, followed by her brother a year later. To compensate for her loneliness as a child, she made many friends with the animals on the Ranch. She loved to engage in as many Ranch activities as possible. .
             Sandra was not the typical child. At the age of seven she was already driving, and before the time she turned eight she was a professional at shouting rifles and riding horses. Due to living on the ranch, it made Sandra's way to get an education extremely difficult. Her parents then decided it was time to send her to live with her Grand mother in El Paso. Shortly after arriving to her Grandmother's house, Sandra was placed in a private academy for girls called The Radford School. She continued her education at this private school all through out high school.
             Spending time away from her family was very hard.