Reagan historian looks back at historic O'Connor appointment: 'most qualified'
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Sandra Day O'Connor was "the most qualified woman" President Reagan "could possibly find" to serve as the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court in 1981.
During his 1980 presidential campaign, President Reagan made a promise to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court bench. In O'Connor, Reagan found something of a kindred spirit, according to one biographer. Brianna Herlihy is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
Craig Shirley, author of the forthcoming book The Search for Reagan, writes, "Like Reagan, Sandra Day (O’Connor later by marriage), came from a hardscrabble background."
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