Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Supreme Court Justice's life and career in pictures

Ruth Bader's engagement photograph, while a senior at Cornell University in December 1953.

Portrait of Ruth Ginsburg, filed 1977.

Sen. Howell Heflin, D-Ala., receives a Capitol Hill visit from Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg shortly after she was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Clinton in June 1993.

Justice Ginsburg stands beside President Clinton at the White House on March 19, 1996, after he signed a proclamation designating March as Women's History Month. 

A smiling Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg acknowledges the applause of the audience at the 45th commencement at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., on May 19, 1996. Justice Ginsburg was honored with an honorary doctor of laws degree from the university.

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is bundled up for the cold as she stands with other members of the Supreme Court before the start of the swearing in ceremony for US President-elect George W. Bush at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Jan. 20, 2001.

Justice Ginsburg swears in Vice President Al Gore for his second term on Jan. 20, 1997.

Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg laughs with her husband Martin as they listen to Justice Stephen Breyer speak at Columbia Law School on Sept. 12, 2003. The occasion celebrated the 10th anniversary of her appointment to the Supreme Court.

Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as she appeared in the official Supreme Court photo on Dec. 5, 2003. 

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg arrives at a ceremony to unveil the Chief Justice John Marshall Silver Dollar May 4, 2005 at the Supreme Court Upper Great Hall in Washington, DC.

Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, top left, accompanies her colleagues en route to attend funeral services for Chief Justice William Rehnquest on Sept. 7, 2005.

Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg arrives for President Barack Obama's State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Feb. 24, 2009.

 

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg poses for a portrait on Apr 27, 2009.

President Barack Obama greets Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before his State of the Union address in 2011. Associate Justices Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer look on.

Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg poses with fellow Justices Elena Kagan, left, and Sonia Sotomayor, center, at a Women's History Month reception in the U.S. Capitol on March 18, 2015.

Supreme Court justices, from left, Samuel Alito, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer arrive on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, in Washington, for his inauguration ceremony as the 45th president of the United States.

Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg poses with "RBG" documentary filmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg arrives Sept. 26, 2018, for an appearance at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.

The Supreme Court's official portrait in November 2018 shows Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (seated, second from right) alongside her eight colleagues. From left in front row: Stephen Breyer, Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Ginsburg, Samuel Alito. From left to right, back row: Neil Gorsuch, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh.

Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the last justice to leave a private ceremony in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court where the late Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens lies in repose on July 22, 2019 in Washington, DC.

Associate Justice, Supreme Court fo the United States Ruth Bader Ginsburg after she is awarded a SUNY Honorary Degree by University of Buffalo on Aug. 26, 2019.

Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg participates in a discussion at Georgetown University Law Center on Feb. 10, 2020, in Washington, D.C.