Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away Friday, September 18th, 2020. She struggled with metastatic prostate cancer for several years, and peacefully passed in her home in Washington DC.

87 year old Ginsberg, or RBG as she was known, was on the Supreme Court for 27 years. She is known for her fight for LGBTQ rights and gender equality. She was the second woman on the Supreme Court and Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women from 2004 to 2011.

She started her rough and bumpy climb to becoming a Supreme Court Justice when she went to law school at Harvard as one of the only nine women who attended Harvard Law. The treatment she received and the discrimination she went through during her time at Harvard led to her civil rights activism.

After finishing law school Ginsburg tried to get jobs with law firms, but despite tying for first in her class she wasn’t accepted by any. After awhile she began working at Rutgers Law School where she discovered that although she was doing the same work, her and her female colleagues were receiving significantly less pay than their male cohorts. This resulted in her joining a equal pay campaign and getting a salary increase.

In 1972, after Ginsburg struggle against sexist discrimination, she birthed the ACLU Women’s Rights Project. Also in 1972 RBG became the first women to be granted a tenure at Columbia Law School. She went on to be appointed to US Court of Appeals, and then in 1993 to the Supreme Court. She served on the Supreme Court until her recent passing.

She was a inspiration to many and will continue to influence the fair treatment of all for ages to come.