August 10, 1993: Ruth Bader Ginsburg is sworn into the Supreme Court of the United States, making her the 107th Supreme Court Justice and the second ever female Justice after Sandra Day O'Connor. Ginsburg replaced retired Justice Byron White and served on the Supreme Court for 27 years until her death in 2020 at the age of 87. She was the first justice named to the Supreme Court by a Democratic president since 1967 when Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall, adding a more liberal voice to a court that had grown increasingly conservative with appointees by Republican presidents over the previous decades.
