The Cowgirl Who Became a Justice: Sandra Day O’Connor: A 30^th Anniversary Celebration

October 27, 2011-March 25, 2012

“Before I rode occasionally on the round-up, it had been an all-male domain. Changing it to accommodate a female was probably my first initiation into joining an all-men’s club, something I did more than once in my life.” 

    –O’Connor in Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest.

Prior to Sandra Day O’Connor, no other female in the United States had been given as heavy and as public a yoke to carry in representing women, the West and in turn the best interests of the nation.

The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame proudly celebrates 2002 Hall of Fame Honoree Sandra Day O’Connor, on the 30th anniversary of her appointment to the United States Supreme Court.  Come see this cowgirl’s connections between life on the ranch . . . and life on the bench.