Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1930, Mar. 26 | Born, El Paso, Tex. |
| 1950 | A.B., Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. |
| 1952 | LL.B., Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. |
| 1952 | Admitted to California bar |
| 1952 | Married John Jay O'Connor (1930-2009) |
| 1952-1953 | Deputy county attorney, San Mateo, Calif. |
| 1954-1957 | Civil attorney, Quartermaster Market Center, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 1959-1965 | Private law practice, Phoenix, Ariz. |
| 1965-1969 | Assistant attorney general, State of Arizona |
| 1968-1969 | Member, board of editors of Stanford University Law Review |
| 1968-1974 | Trustee, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Ariz. |
| 1969-1975 | Senator, Arizona State Senate |
| 1972-1973 | Chair, Committee on State, County and Municipal Affairs, Arizona State Senate |
| 1973-1974 | Majority leader, Arizona State Senate |
| 1974-1976 | Member, Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services |
| 1975-1979 | Judge, Maricopa County, Arizona, Superior Court |
| 1975-1981 | Member, Advisory Board of Phoenix Salvation Army, Phoenix, Ariz. |
| 1976-1980 | Trustee, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. |
| 1976-1981 | Trustee, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Ariz. |
| 1979-1980 | Faculty member, Robert A. Taft Institute on Government, New York, N.Y. |
| 1979-1981 | Judge, Arizona Court of Appeals |
| 1981-2006 | Associate justice, United States Supreme Court |
| 2002 | Published, with H. Alan Day, Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest. New York: Random House |
| 2003 | Published The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice. New York: Random House |
| 2005 | Published Chico. New York: Dutton Children's Books |
| 2005-2012 | Chancellor, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va. |
| 2006 | Member of Iraq Study Group |
| 2009 | Published Finding Susie. New York: Alfred A. Knopf Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom Founded O'Connor House, an organization dedicated to solving complex issues through civil discourse and citizen action (became the Sandra Day O'Connor Institute for American Democracy in 2015) |
| 2013 | Published Out of Order Stories from the History of the Supreme Court. New York: Random House |
| 2018 | Announced retirement from public life after a diagnosis of early stages of dementia |
| 2023, Dec. 1 | Died, Phoenix, Ariz. |