Turning 20! - Alumni - Cornell University

“I pray that I may be all that she would have
been had she lived in an age when women
could aspire to achieve and daughters are
cherished as much as sons.”
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg ‘54
a tribute to her late mother upon
accepting her nomination as a
US Supreme Court Justice, June 1993
After graduating from Cornell, Phi Beta Kappa ,in 1954 with high
honors in Government and distinction in all subjects, she entered
Harvard Law school that fall as one of nine women in a class of more
than 500.