Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (born Joan Ruth Bader ; 1933 – September 18, 2020), also known by her initials RBG , was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was an important liberal member of the court, nominated by President Bill Clinton . Ginsburg was the second woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. For 3 years,she was the only female justice on the Supreme Court. During that time, Ginsburg became more forceful with her dissents, especially in relation to women’s rights. J oan Ruth Bader was born in Brooklyn in 1933 to a Ukranian Jewish immigrant father and an American-Austrian Jewish mother. When Joan was 14 months old, her elder sister Marilyn died of meningitis at the age of six. Her sister’s childhood nickname for her, “Kiki” (because she had been a kicky baby” stuck even after Marilyn’s death. At school, Kiki was known as Ruth, because there were several other Joans in her year gro