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Conversations with Outstanding Americans: Sandra Day O'Connor Elected in 1981 as the First Woman to Sit on the Supreme Court, Justice O'Connor Has Proved to Be Both a Pragmatic, Conservative Voice and a Coalition-Builder. Her "Swing Vote" Has Often Tilted Major Rulings. Series: O'Connors Main Impact Is in the Area of Reproductive Rights, Church and State and Race. BY MELANIE STETSON FREEMAN - STAFF. 2) HISTORIC DAY: O'Connor Is Sworn Is by Chief Justice Warren Burger, Sept. 25, 1981, as Her Husband, John, Looks on. MICHAEL EVANS/UPI. 3) THE HIGH COURT,1994 : Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Stephen Breyer, John Paul Steven, William Rehnquist, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. KEN HEINEN/ AP. 4) FOREIGN MATTERS: O'Connor, Meeting Visiting Bosnian Judges Last Month (above), Actively Backs an Independent Judiciary in East Europe. TYLER MALLORY/AP
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Sandra Day O'Conner inhabits one of the loftiest spots in American law. As the third-senior member of the Supreme Court, the former ranch girl from Arizona who used to "get up at 3 a.m. and be in the saddle by sunup," as she puts it, has more than come a long way. But what Justice O'Connor wants today is more common sense in the interaction between law and ordinary people.
In a wide-ranging conversation with the Monitor, the practical minded O'Connor backs a number of reform ideas. She wants courts to not only seem more accessible, but to actually be so. She would be willing, for example, to allow people to serve on juries who have seen or heard news reports of …
