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Justitia became a symbol for the virtue of justice with which every emperor wished to associate his regime; emperor Vespasian minted coins with the image of the goddess seated on a throne called Iustitia Augusta, and many emperors after him used the image of the goddess to proclaim themselves protectors of justice.
Emblem of the Supreme Court of India The Supreme Court of India, in New Delhi. This is a list of women judges of the Supreme Court of India, the highest court in the Republic of India. The list is ordered according to chronology. The first woman to become a justice in the court was Fathima Beevi, appointed on 6 October 1989. There have been 11 ...
Sonia Maria Sotomayor (/ ˈ s oʊ n j ə ˌ s oʊ t oʊ m aɪ ˈ j ɔːr / ⓘ, Spanish: [ˈsonja sotomaˈʝoɾ]; [1] born June 25, 1954) [2] is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Since the Supreme Court first convened in 1790, 116 justices have served on the bench. Of those, 108 have been White men. But in recent decades the court has become more diverse. Over half of its ...
Since the Supreme Court was established in 1789, 116 people have served on the Court. The length of service on the Court for the 107 non-incumbent justices ranges from William O. Douglas's 36 years, 209 days to John Rutledge's 1 year, 18 days as associate justice and, separated by a period of years off the Court, his 138 days as chief justice.
Charles Ommanney/Getty Images Former U.S. Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor has died. She was 93. “Retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Sandra Day O ...
Take Louis Brandeis — the first Jewish Supreme Court justice. Now, the president plans to nominate a person he hopes will become the first Black female Supreme Court justice — an announcement ...
In a 2019 Girton College lecture entitled "100 Years of Women in Law", [35] [36] Lady Hale described the "Brenda Agenda" (a neologism coined by her Supreme Court colleague Lord Hope) as "quite simply, the belief that women are equal to men and should enjoy the same rights and freedoms that they do; but that women's lives are necessarily ...