RBG

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice, was born in Brooklyn, New York, March 15, 1933. She married Martin D. Ginsburg in 1954, and has a daughter, Jane, and a son, James. She received her B.A. from Cornell University, attended Harvard Law School, and received her LL.B. from Columbia Law School.

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When and Where was Ruth Bader Gingsburg born?

• Atlanta, GA 1954

• Lopaz, Spain 1922

• Brooklyn, New York 1933

• Birmingham, AL 2005

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How old was Ruth when she married Martin? Hint...Ruth was born in 1933. Ruth and Martin married in 1954.

• 19

• 56

• 21

• 39

RBG served as a law clerk to the Honorable Edmund L. Palmieri, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, from 1959–1961.

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How long did RBG serve as a law clerk to the Honorable Edmund L. Palmieri?

• 6 months

• 2 years

• 3 days

• 1 hour

From 1961–1963, she was a research associate and then associate director of the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure. She was a Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law from 1963–1972, and Columbia Law School from 1972–1980, and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California, from 1977–1978

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From 1961–1963, RBG was a research associate and then associate director of the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure. How many years was RBG a research associate?

• 7 years

• 3 days

• 48 hours

• 2 years

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RBG was a Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law from 1963–1972, and Columbia Law School from 1972–1980, and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California, from 1977–1978. RBG was a professor at the following schools:

• Rutgers University

• Crawford Long Middle School

• Standford University (California)

• Columbia Law School

• Morehouse College

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RBG was appointed was appointed a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1980. President Clinton nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 1993, and she took her seat August 10, 1993. After being appointed to the District of Columbia Circuit in 1980, how many years after the appointment she was selected as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court?

• 7 days

• 2 hours

• 13 years

• 4 month

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How many years did RBG work in a college or university. Hint: From 1961–1963, RBG was a research associate and then associate director of the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure. She was a Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law from 1963–1972, and Columbia Law School from 1972–1980, and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California, from 1977–1978.

• 22 years

• 15 days

• 24 hours

• 18 years