Former American judge Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States, died Friday at the age of 93, the Court announced in a press release.
She died Friday morning in Phoenix, Arizona, the institution said, adding that she suffered from “advanced dementia, probably Alzheimer’s, and a respiratory illness.” Appointed to the Supreme Court in 1981 by then-Republican President Ronald Reagan, she retired in 2006.
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