They were married shortly after Ruth Bader’s graduation, and lived in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where Ginsburg completed his military service. It was also at Cornell that she met her future husband, Martin Ginsburg, on a blind date.

Here, she delivers a sermon.Īt Cornell University, Ruth Bader earned a bachelor’s degree with high honors in government and distinction in all subjects. In 1948, at age fifteen, Ruth was the camp rabbi at Che-Na-Wah, in Minerva, New York. Celia Bader suffered from poor health throughout Ruth’s teen years, dying of cancer the day before Ruth graduated from James Madison High School. Bader never pursued a career of her own, she encouraged Ruth’s scholarly and professional ambitions, taking her to the library every week to keep her supplied with books. (United States Supreme Court)Īlthough Nathan Bader never attended high school, he achieved some success as a fur manufacturer, while Celia worked in the home and helped with the family business. Her mother was stricken with cancer when Ruth was a girl, and died the day before Ruth’s high school graduation. Her father was a furrier during the height of the Depression, when customers were scarce. Ruth Bader was born in Brooklyn on March 15, 1933.

The Baders’ first daughter died when Ruth was only two. Her mother Celia was born in the United States to immigrant parents newly arrived from Austria her father Nathan immigrated to the United States from Russia at age 13. Ruth Joan Bader was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York.

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