From the early 1990s until her retirement in 2005, she was the indisputable swing justice
Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court and the justice who held the court’s center for more than a generation, died Friday, the court said in a statement.
Her cause of death was complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness. She was 93.
Chief Justice John Roberts said in a statement that O’Connor “blazed an historic trail as our nation’s first female justice.”
If you want to be pedantic, it’s not strictly wrong, but it is not a modern way of speaking or writing, and it hasn’t been for over two decades. And I’m not willing to give John Roberts the benefit of the doubt even for pedantry.