‘When you pursue your path in life, leave tracks” (quote from RBG)
When I was a first-year law student at the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 1974, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, well before she had become a judge, delivered the Marx Lecture, the law school’s most prestigious lectureship, on Gender and the Constitution. I remember thinking to myself at the time that I had just heard the most intelligent, principled, focused, caring woman of my lifetime, with a moral compass that never wavered from true north. It’s more than forty years later, and I still think so. I join the millions of others who weep at her passing. May her memory be a blessing.
To my own remembrance, I add this statement, which aptly comes from the first woman ever to serve as Ohio’s Chief Justice, Maureen O’Connor: