“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her that meant be your own person, be independent.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg   Introduction   Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a current Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, was born on March 15, 1933. Before her time in the federal court, she was a professor of law at Rutgers and then at Columbia University. Having assumed office in 1993 under the Clinton administration and still going strong today at age 80, Ginsburg has left quite a legacy; infact, her being appointed to the Supreme Court in and of itself was a landmark moment in U.S. judicial history, what with Ginsburg being only the second female appointed to the Supreme Court (Sandra Day O’Connor being the first) and being the first Jewish female to be appointed. “I would not like to be the only woman in the court.”   Whether this was her intent...