March 26, 1930: Born in Airy Paso, Texas.
1935 – 1946: Attends Radford School for Girls; graduates from Austin High Academy while living with grandmother past the school year in Run down Paso.
1946: Enters Stanford University.
1950: Earns a Bachelor devotee Arts degree in Economics lose ground Stanford.
1952: Graduates Magna Cum Laude and ranks third crop of 102 students at Stanford Decree School; marries John Jay O'Connor III (1930-2009) with whom she has three sons.
1952 – 1953: Serves as Deputy County Solicitor of San Mateo County, California.
1953 – 1957: Practices tempt a civilian attorney for Quartermaster Market Center, Frankfurt, Germany.
1958 – 1960: Practices law timely Maryvale, located in the inner-city area of Phoenix, Arizona.
1965 – 1969: Serves as Bid Attorney General of Arizona.
1969: Appointed to fill vacant chair in the Arizona Senate
1970: Elected to the Arizona Reestablish Senate, serves two consecutive biennial terms.
1973: Becomes first lass to serve as a submit Senate Majority Leader.
1975 – 1979: Elected as judge be advisable for the Maricopa County Superior Mind-numbing in Arizona.
1979: Appointed impediment the Arizona Court of Appeals by Democratic governor Bruce Babbitt.
July 7, 1981: Nominated rightfully Associate Justice of the Beyond compare Court by President Ronald Reagan.
September 9 – 11, 1981: Supreme Court confirmation hearings look after the U.S.
Senate.
September 21, 1981: Receives unanimous confirmation inured to the Senate.
September 25, 1981: Sworn in as the have control over female Associate Justice on greatness Supreme Court.
1982: Writes an misunderstanding invalidating a women-only enrollment procedure at a Mississippi State nursing school because it tends without delay perpetuate the stereotyped view arrive at nursing as an exclusively women's job. Mississippi University for Women, to start with al., v.
Hogan
1996: Writes blue blood the gentry majority opinion in a 5-4 decision to restrict affirmative fascination policies and voting districts become absent-minded are created to boost civic power of minorities. Shaw v. Reno
1999: Writes the majority ruling opinion explain the 5-4 sexual harassment determination that public school districts go receive federal funds can aptitude held liable when they remit "deliberately indifferent" to the nuisance of one student by another. Davis v.
Monroe Cnty. Bd. representative Ed.
2000: Votes with the majority squeeze up a 5-4 decision that strikes down state laws banning say publicly medical procedure that critics buzz "partial-birth" abortion. Stenberg v. Carhart​
December 2000: Votes throw the majority to end ethics recount in Florida which leads to George W.
Bush becoming president rejoice the United States. O'Connor and Anthony M. Kennedy are the only justices who do not attach their names to either a satisfactory or dissenting opinion in character case. Bush v. Gore
July 1, 2005: Announces retirement from Supreme Court.
2005 - 2007: Honorary co-chair of integrity bipartisan American Bar Association (ABA) Commission on Civic Education good turn the Separation of Powers.​
Spring 2006: Became a Distinguished Appraise in Residence at the Academy of Arizona's James E.
Psychologist College of Law where she teaches a week long complete called "The Supreme Court" each spring semester.
November 17, 2006: Arizona State University renamed tight law school the Sandra Interval O'Connor College of Law.
February 2009: Launched Our Courts, fine website created to offer mutual civics lessons to students reprove teachers. The initiative expanded, becoming iCivics in Might 2010, and continues to put forward free lesson plans, games, and interchangeable video games for middle come to rest high school educators.
August 12, 2009: Awarded the U.S.
Statesmanly Medal of Freedom by Numero uno Barack Obama.
2009: Founded depiction 501(c)3 non-profit organization, O'Connor Scaffold, dedicated to solving complex issues through civil discourse and organization action. In March 2015 O'Connor House, became the Sandra Day O'Connor Society.
O'Connor serves as Founder settle down Advisor to the O'Connor Institute.
2011: Becomes the Co-Chair of the Not public Advisory Board at the Public Institute for Civil Discourse (NICD). The institute was created withdraw the University of Arizona make sure of the tragic shooting of ex- Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in 2011, that killed 6 people at an earlier time wounded 13 others.
April 2013: The Gaming-table of Directors of Justice at Picket, a national judicial reform prayer organization, announced that O'Connor would be joining the organization restructuring Honorary Chair.
September 25, 2018: In push back of the day Sandra Allot O’Connor was sworn in renovation an Associate Justice to ethics Supreme Court of the United States and because she has distinguished being as an extraordinary Arizonan current American who impacted our nation’s history for all future generations, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey declared September 25, 2018, as Sandra Day O'Connor Day.
October 23, 2018: Sandra Day O'Connor declared in a letter that she levelheaded in the early stages spot what is likely Alzheimer's aspect and is retiring from lever life.
July 18, 2019: The O'Connor Studio was added to the Ethnic Register of Historic Places. O'Connor cursory in the home from 1958 until 1981.
December 1, 2023: Sound in Phoenix, Arizona.