Ruth Bader Ginsburg began serving on the United States Supreme Court on August 10, 1993.

After being rejected for a Supreme Court clerkship because she was a woman, she began her legal career as a law professor at Rutgers University, and pioneering advocate for women's legal rights. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, also know as "Notorious RBG", was head of the Women's Rights Project of the ACLU--arguing six landmark cases before the Supreme Court--wining five in the fight to end gender discrimination.

Women on the Court: "People ask me sometimes...'When will there be enough women on the court?' 'And my answer is, 'When there are nine. 'People are shocked, but there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that."

To Law Students: "...if you are going to be a lawyer and just practice your profession, you have a skill--very much like a plumber. But if you want to be a true professional, you will do something outside yourself...something that makes life a little better for people less fortunate than you."

Domingo Garcia, national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens: "She was well aware of her place in history as one of the voices for the excluded, the oppressed and those trying to find real justice in the courts."