I 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4814 
To obtain and direct the placement in the Capitol or on the Capitol Grounds 
of a statue to honor Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the 
United States Sandra Day O’Connor and a statue to honor Associate 
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 29, 2021 
Ms. LOIS FRANKEL of Florida (for herself, Ms. SPEIER, Mrs. LAWRENCE, Ms. 
ESCOBAR, Ms. GARCIA of Texas, Miss GONZA´LEZ-COLO´N, Ms. DEAN, and 
Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on House Administration 
A BILL 
To obtain and direct the placement in the Capitol or on 
the Capitol Grounds of a statue to honor Associate Jus-
tice of the Supreme Court of the United States Sandra 
Day O’Connor and a statue to honor Associate Justice 
of the Supreme Court of the United States Ruth Bader 
Ginsburg. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 
(a) SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR.—Congress finds the 
following: 
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(1) Sandra Day O’Connor was born in 1930 in 
El Paso, Texas, and spent her childhood on her fam-
ily’s isolated Arizona cattle ranch. She lived with her 
grandmother in El Paso during the school year, 
away from her home and parents. 
(2) O’Connor matriculated to Stanford Univer-
sity at the age of 16, and combined her under-
graduate and law school curricula, graduating with 
a bachelor’s degree in economics and a law degree 
in just 6 years. She was third in her law school 
class, behind William Rehnquist, her future col-
league on the Supreme Court of the United States 
(in this section referred to as the ‘‘Supreme Court’’). 
(3) Despite her qualifications, O’Connor could 
not find work as an attorney because of bias against 
women in the law. She ended up negotiating for an 
unpaid position in the San Mateo County District 
Attorney’s office at a shared desk, while her hus-
band, John, finished at Stanford Law School 1 year 
later. 
(4) O’Connor traveled to Frankfurt, Germany, 
in 1954 with her husband John, who had joined the 
United States Army Judge Advocate General’s 
Corps, where she was able to find work as a civilian 
attorney with the United States Army Quarter-
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master Corps. In 1957, O’Connor returned to Ari-
zona and still could not find work with a traditional 
law firm due to her gender, so she ‘‘hung out a shin-
gle’’ as a sole practitioner. 
(5) In 1965, O’Connor was hired as an Assist-
ant Attorney General for the State of Arizona. 
(6) Active in Republican Party politics and 
well-received for her work at the Arizona State Cap-
itol, O’Connor was appointed to an Arizona State 
Senate seat in 1969 when the incumbent, also a 
woman, was appointed to a Federal position and va-
cated the office. 
(7) In 1970, O’Connor was elected to the Ari-
zona State Senate and served 2 consecutive terms. 
In 1972, she was selected as majority leader of the 
Arizona State Senate, the first time a woman held 
such a position in any State. 
(8) In 1974, O’Connor ran for office as a trial 
court judge. She won and was later appointed to the 
Arizona Court of Appeals in 1979. 
(9) On August 19, 1981, President Ronald 
Reagan nominated O’Connor to be an Associate Jus-
tice of the Supreme Court, to fill the seat vacated 
by Associate Justice Potter Stewart. On September 
21, 1981, the Senate confirmed O’Connor’s nomina-
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