October, 2018 - Ruther Bader Ginsberg - Prickly Pear Cocktail

Ruth Bader Ginsberg (March 15, 1933 - )

Ginsburg graduated from Cornell University in 1954, finishing first in her lass. She attended Harvard Law School for two years before transferring to Columbia Law School to join her husband, who had been hired by a prestigious law firm in New York City. She was elected to the law reviews of both schools and graduated tied for first in her class at Columbia in 1959.

After clerking for U.S. District Judge Edmund L. Palmieri (1959-61), she taught at Rutgers University Law School (63-72) and at Columbia (72-80), where she became the school's first female tenured professor. During the 1970s she also served as the director of the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, for which she argued six landmark cases on gender equality before the Supreme Court. She won five of those cases and thereby helped establish the unconstitutionality of unequal treatment of men and women.

She was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1993 by President Bill Clinton to fill the seat vacated by Justice Byron White; she was easily confirmed by the Senate (96-3). 


The Cocktail:

Prickly Pear
1/2 pear
.5 Tbsp honey
1/4 lime, juiced
1.5 oz bourbon
3 oz chilled ginger ale

Drinkability: 5
Drunkability: 2
Taxic Diversity: 3
Accessibility: 4
Priority for Conservation: 5+

Comments: We should all watch the movie (added later)

From "The Supremes (Women of the Supreme Court) hosted by MPF