Sandra Day O’Connor is the first woman to be nominated to the supreme court. She was from Arizona and attended law at Stanford. She finished 2nd in her class to who would eventually be her boss Chief Rehnquist. (its understood they, for a time, dated.) She was nominated by President Ronald Reagan (also a prior California governor for a time) but also a president. The president is in the photograph with O’Connor’s new boss Chief Warren Burger.