Ruth Bader Ginsburg Timeline
High School
March 15, 1933
- Ruth Joan Bader was born in Brooklyn, New York to Nathan and Celia Bader.
- Celia took great interest in her daughter's education and often took Ruth to the library.
- Ruth Joan Bader graduated from James Madison High School in New York.
- The eve before her graduation her greatest supporter of her education her mother passed away after a long struggle with cancer.
- Years later James Madison law program donated a courtroom in Ruth's honor.
1954
- Ruth Joan Bader graduated from Cornell University as first in her class.
- Enrolled into Harvard Law School where she was one of nine women in the entire program in a class of five hundred.