Biography
Ruth Ginzburg - the second woman in history, which entered the US Supreme Court. In the World Wide Web Icon of Feminism received the nicknamer notorious r.b.g. By analogy with Rapper The Notorious B.i.g. Interestingly, the lawyer was distinguished from the black musician not only the race and floor, but also by the dimensions (the growth of Ruth was 158 cm, and Christopher - 191 cm) and the lasting life (the biography of Opponent Tupak Shakura was cut off at 24, and Ginzburg lived at 3.5 times longer). In addition to popularity, the Rights and Rapper united only the number of children - each of the celebrities there were two, the Son and Daughter.Childhood and youth
Joan Ruth Bader (this is the full name of the lawyer in Maiden) was born on March 15, 1933 in the family of Jewish emigrants living in the Brooklyn Flattbush microdistrict. The ancestors of the father lived in Odessa, and the mother in Krakow. Since the girl was still pushed in the womb, her nicknames ("Tolkushka"). When Joan Ruth was 14 months old, her older sister Merilin died from meningitis.
When Kiki went to school, there were several girls named Joan among classmates, and parents offered teachers to reduce her daughter's name to Ruth. The Bader family was non-religious, but found it necessary to introduce the heir to Hebrew and the foundations of Judaism in the Jewish center during the synagogue. The day before the end of the Ruth of High School James Madison, her mother died.
Bachelor's degree Bader received in 1954 at the University of Cornell, and Doctoral - in 1959 in Harvard Law School. However, by the time of the completion of the formation of a native Fletbusch was already the mother of the family and wore the name Ginzburg.
Personal life
At the age of 17 in Cornell, the girl met a sophomore and a star of student golf Martin Ginzburg, and a month after the end of the university, he married a promising guy. The personal life of Ruth has developed happily, but in the youth, the spouses experienced a serious test. After birth in 1955, Daughters Jane Carol had a serious illness - an egg cancer.With the support of his wife, Martin suffered two operations and radiation therapy. Although the cause of the death of a man in 2010 became cancer, Ginsburg after the diagnosis set in youth, lived over 50 years, and in 1965 the wife gave him the Son James Stephen.
Spouse-colleagues supported each other all his life. The husband was preparing the root breakfast and daily made a selection of articles about her in the newspapers. Marin's marriage called an amazing journey with a wonderful companion.
Martin's daughter and Ruth went to the footsteps of the parents and became a lawyer. Son preferred a career of a musical producer. And Jane Carol, and James Stephen after divorces entered into second marriages. From the first marriage, both brother and sister have two children.
At the beginning, Ruth career wore dresses and skirts, but then moved to the trouser suits. The lady-judge had a lot of jackets of all shades, but lace pending collars and mesh gloves became branded attributes of Ginzburg.
Since 1999, Ruth has been engaged in Weitlifting - a type of fitness that makes focus on stretch marks. Ginzburg's physical education appealed when recovered after radiation and chemotherapy transferred to get rid of colon cancer. On the eve of the 80th anniversary in 2013, Ruth 120 times came from the floor.
Career
The life of Ginzburg was devoted to the fight against gender inequality, which a lawyer was considered no less dangerous than racial discrimination. Career Ruth went up when she won the case of infringement of the rights of a man - American could not get a tax deduction laid by women.
In the future, Ginzburg preferred to replace the word "floor" (SEX) to Gender and emphasized that he was fighting for the rights of the ladies, but for the equality of gender. It was Ruth who advanced laws on same-sex marriages and about the right of a woman on an abortion.
Embed from getty imagesIn April 1980, Jimmy Carter put forward Ginzburg to the post of judge of the US Court of Appeal in Columbia. After 13 years at Bill Clinton, she became an assistant judge of the US Supreme Court.
In 2016, Ruth in three interviews had a negative impact on the US presidential candidate Donald Trump, joking that in case of election, politics for the highest state post will be forced to go to New Zealand, as in America with democracy will be finished. In the future, the judge apologized for the replicas and called them gross.
Death
Ruth won cancer four times. After the first precedent, the disease gave Ginzburg to a breather for 10 years. In 2009, the judge suffered an operation due to pancreatic cancer identified at the initial stage. After 18 days after surgery, the lawyer has already met in the Supreme Court. In 2014, Ruth moved coronary shunting.
In November 2018, Ginzburg fell in his office and broke three ribs. Computed tomography of the chest cell showed cancer nodules in the left lung, and the elderly woman removed part of the respiratory body. In August 2019, the disease again overtook the pancreas. In May 2020, Ruth began the "fifth round" of fighting cancer.
The judge died on September 18, 2020, on the eve of the Jewish New Year. Reformed Rabbi Richard Jacobs explained that at the very end of the outgoing year, the land leaves genuine righteous, since the Most High seeks to leaving them to help people. After the farewell ceremony, Ruth buried next to her husband on Arlington Cemetery in Virginia.