'While the family of New York mourns Justice Ginsburg's death, we remember proudly that she started her incredible journey right here in Brooklyn,' Cuomo said.
RBG was born in Brooklyn on March 15, 1933 and and grew up in the borough’s Flatbush neighborhood. She received her B.A. from Cornell University, later attended Harvard Law School, received her LL.B. from Columbia Law School, and 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 to 1961.
In 1971, RBG was instrumental in launching the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. During that time, she helped write the ACLU brief in, “a case argued before the Supreme Court that involved discrimination against women in awarding the administration of a child’s estate.” Ginsburg also served as the ACLU’s General Counsel from 1973 to 1980 and on the National Board of Directors from 1974 to 1980. And she was later appointed Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court by President Clinton in 1993, becoming the second woman to sit on the bench of the United States Supreme Court in its 212 year history.
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