sandra day o'connor (FWOTSC) confirmed to SCOTUS, 21 sept 1981.
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Response to being first woman on the Supreme Court
In response to an editorial in The New York Times which mentioned the "nine old men" of the Court, the self-styled FWOTSC (First Woman On The Supreme Court) sent a pithy letter to the editor:
I noticed the following ....:
Is no Washington name exempt from shorthand? One, maybe. The Chief Magistrate responsible for executing the laws is sometimes called the POTUS [President of the United States].
The nine men who interpret them are often the SCOTUS [Supreme Court of the United States].
The people who enact them are still, for better or worse, Congress.
According to the information available to me, and which I had assumed was generally available, for over two years now SCOTUS has not consisted of nine men. If you have any contradictory information, I would be grateful if you would forward it as I am sure the POTUS, the SCOTUS and the undersigned (the FWOTSC) would be most interested in seeing it.
—?Sandra D. O'Connor, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, October 12, 1983[32]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Day_O'Connor
