The schools downplay it, but it is a growing problem. I'm not concerned about commuting, because I don't have to, but I am concerned about the kinds of kids my kid is going to school with. I also found a entry about problems in Flagstaff. This was confirmed by the police department. Even downtown Chandler has had a problem with gangs roaming the streets at night. I realize that people aren't dying in the streets everywhere, but there are gangs in our schools. Crucify me, but I found numerous entries when I did the search. There is barely a city in AZ that does not have gang activity. There is a task force in place to deal with the problem. She retired from the Supreme Court in 2006.Put Arizona gangs in your search engine and you will find that I am not making this stuff up.
Her moderation has helped her role as the centrist coalition-builder, which consequently enhanced her influence on the Court. She approached each case with individual treatment and always sought to arrive at a practical conclusion. Although she commonly sided with the conservatives, O'Connor would frequently author a concurrence that sought to narrow the scope of the majority's opinion. However, after a few terms, O'Connor established her own unique position on the Court. Not quite two years later, President Reagan nominated her as the first woman to Supreme Court as a replacement for the retiring Justice Potter Stewart.Įarly in her tenure on the Court, most observers identified O'Connor as part of the Court's conservative faction. A year later, the newly elected Democratic governor nominated O'Connor to the Arizona Court of Appeals. In 1974, O'Connor decided to shift gears and run for a judgeship on the Maricopa County Superior Court. O'Connor successfully defended her senate position for two more terms and eventually became the majority leader, a first for women anywhere in the U.S. Jack Williams appointed O'Connor to occupy the vacant seat. When a state senator resigned to take an appointment in Washington D.C., Arizona Gov. After five years as a full-time mother, O'Connor returned to work as an assistant state attorney general in Arizona. After she gave birth to her second son, O'Connor withdrew from work temporarily to care for her children and became involved in many volunteer activities. She practiced a wide variety of small cases in her early days as a lawyer since she lacked specialization and an established reputation. O'Connor again found it difficult to obtain a position with any law firm so she decided to start her own firm with a single partner. in 1957, they settled in Phoenix, Arizona and had their three sons in the six years that followed. While there, Sandra served as a civilian lawyer in the Quartermaster's Corps. When O'Connor's husband graduated from Stanford a year later, the Army immediately drafted him into the Judge Advocate General Corps and stationed him in Frankfurt, Germany. O'Connor turned to public service and accepted a job as the deputy county attorney for San Mateo, California. No law firm in California wanted to hire her and only one offered her a position as a legal secretary. O'Connor faced a difficult job market after leaving Stanford. O'Connor took only two years to complete law school and met her future husband, John Jay O'Connor, while in law school.
A legal dispute over her family's ranch, however, stirred her interest in law and O'Connor decided to enroll at Stanford Law School after receiving her baccalaureate degree magna cum laude in 1950. She chose economics originally with the intention of applying that knowledge towards the operation of a ranch of her own or even the Lazy-B Ranch. After high school, O'Connor attended Stanford University where she majored in economics. The isolated ranch made formal education difficult so O'Connor's parents sent her to live with her maternal grandmother in El Paso. Her parents, Harry and Ada Mae, owned the Lazy-B-Cattle Ranch in southeastern Arizona, where O'Connor grew up. Supreme Court, was born March 26, 1930, in El Paso, Texas. Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to be appointed to the U.S.