Ruth Bader Ginsberg was born on March 15th, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York. She was born in a Jewish family where her father immigrated to the U.S, and her mother was native to New York. The family’s value for education was huge and this was shown through her acceptance into Cornell. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1954 and was at the top of her class. During that same year, she married Martin D. Ginsburg and soon after, they had their first child named Jane. During this time, she was attending Harvard law school where she was one of only nine women in a class of 500 students. While she and the other women faced tons of gender discrimination within the classroom full of men, she wouldn’t let that stop her from speaking of what she knew was right. When her husband accepted a job in New York city, she had to say goodbye to Harvard law school and transfer to Columbia Law School where she graduated in 1959. Even with her stellar academic record, she struggled to find employment while searching for jobs involving the law due to her gender. While It took a lot of searching, Ginsberg was able to land a position as a law clerk in New York during 1959. Following her clerkship, Ginsburg began working as a research associate for the Columbia Law School Project. As another year went by, she was given the associate director role and continued in that position for another year. In 1963 Ginsburg was given the opportunity to be a Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law and taught classes. This was huge for Ginsberg because at the time there were only a few female law professors in the United States. As the year 1972 hit, Ginsburg was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1980 by President Jimmy Carter. She served there for thirteen years until she was nominated as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton in 1993. She accepted his nomination and took her seat as a Supreme Court Justice on August 10, 1993. She became the second woman, and first Jewish woman, to serve on the Supreme Court. Ginsburg had a huge impact on women’s history due to her continuous advocacy of gender equality and not letting women be held back because of it. Her fight for women to be acknowledged as equal to men, has helped women get into the court and judicial systems today.