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Justice Sandra Day O'Connor; Focus On Details: Drive to do her best every time led her to the highest court.(LEADERS & SUCCESS)
Byline: JAMES DETAR
Sandra Day O'Connor is no stranger to tough challenges.
When President Reagan named her the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court in 1981, O'Connor took her seat as an associate justice in September of that year. While an important milestone for women in the judicial system, it wasn't the first time O'Connor joined what had until then been a men-only group.
The first time she crossed the gender divide, she says, was as a little girl. She grew up on the Lazy B, a cattle ranch her parents owned in the semiarid, high desert plateau along the Arizona-New Mexico border.
O'Connor started riding horses when she was barely more than a toddler. It wasn't long, she says, before she wanted to accompany her father on cattle drives. But that was traditionally an all-male domain.
No matter: O'Connor was determined to go. She lobbied her father until he agreed.
"Changing it to accommodate a female was probably my first initiation into joining an all-men's club, something I did more than once in my life," O'Connor said in "Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest," co-written with her brother, Alan Day.
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