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“Dinners with Ruth” chronicles author Nina Totenberg and Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s friendship. Here’s a glimpse of RBG “by the numbers”:
• One of 9 women at Harvard Law School (class of 500)
• Graduated first in her class from Columbia Law School
• First person named to both Columbia and Harvard Law Reviews
• First tenured female law professor at Columbia Law School
• Second female law professor at Rutgers
• Second female U.S. Supreme Court Justice
• First Supreme Court Justice to officiate a same-sex marriage
• Co-founder of the first law journal on women’s rights
• Only Supreme Court Justice to become a pop culture icon
– Betsie Gambel, Gambel Communications, The New Orleans 100