Synopsis
Sandra Day O'Connor made history as the first woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court. This compilation includes a segment with Justice Breyer and Justice O'Connor discussing judicial independence. In another segment, Jan Crawford Greenburg engages Justice O'Connor in a conversation about her historic appointment and women in the legal profession. O'Connor's autobiographical work, "Lazy B: Growing Up On a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest" is discussed with NewsHour senior correspondent Gwen Ifill. In the final segment, legal analysts Jan Crawford Greenburg, Pam Karlan, John Yoo and Ronnell Anderson Jones examine O'Connor's legacy and the view of O'Connor as the "swing" vote as she retires from the bench.