Sandra Day O’Connor Broke Legal Profession’s Glass Ceiling (3)

Sandra Day O’Connor blazed a trail that took her from a Texas cattle ranch to the nation’s highest court by navigating a work world rife with gender discrimination while wielding her own brand of feminism.

O’Connor, who died Friday morning at the age of 93, overcame snubs from Big Law firms that preferred that the Stanford Law School graduate take a job as a secretary.

As an Arizona state senator, she faced off with often chauvinist male colleagues on the way to amending hundreds of gender-biased laws, and became the first woman ever to lead a US legislative chamber.

And ...