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O’Connor Picks a Woman Clerk

September 13, 1981

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Type: Newspaper mention

Author: United Press International

Source: Washington Post

Collection: The Kauffman-Henry Collection

Date is approximate: No

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PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept. 12 (UPI)-Sandra O’Connor, confident she will be confirmed as the first woman justice of the “supreme Court, already has selected one of her four law clerks, it was reported today. The Phoenix Gazette said O’Connor has selected Ruth V. McGregor, who has been practicing law for the Phoenix law firm of, Fennemore, Craig, )ion Ammon & Udall, as her law clerk. McGregor, 38, was the top student in Arizona State University’s Law School class of May 1974 . A spokesman for the Phoenix law firm said McGregor left the firm last week to accept the clerk’s position.

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