RUTH BADER GINSBURG T-AO 212
Ship Name and Designation History
This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.
Naming Ceremony by SecNav Ray Mabus 31 March 2022 Construction began 8 October 2024 Keel Laid TBD - Launched TBD Christened TBD - Delivery accepted TBD Additional information (optional) |
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Postmarks
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Other Information
NAMESAKE - Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg (15 March 1933 – 18 September 2020)
Bader was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020.
Joan Ruth Bader was born on March 15, 1933, at in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Her father was a Jewish emigrant from Odesa, Ukraine, at that time part of the Russian Empire, and her mother was born in New York to Jewish parents who came from Kraków, Poland, at that time part of Austria-Hungary.
Bader attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she was a member of Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority. She graduated from Cornell with a Bachelor of Arts degree in government on June 23, 1954. In 1959, she earned her law degree at Columbia Law University. President Bill Clinton nominated Ginsburg as an associate justice of the Supreme Court on June 22, 1993, to fill the seat vacated by retiring justice Byron White. She was the second female and the first Jewish female justice of the Supreme Court. Ginsburg died in 2020 at age 87 after complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer. She served on the Supreme Court for 27 years.
The ships sponsor is Jane Ginsburg, daughter of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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