RBG; AN ICON PASSES

She had difficulty in finding employment and was rejected for a clerkship position, because of her gender, by Supreme Court Justice Felix Frank. Columbia Law Professor Gerald Gunther lobbied Edmund Palmieri of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York on her behalf, threatening to never send another Columbia graduate to him and promising to provide a replacement if she was unsuccessful. RBG began her clerkship with Judge Palmeiri and stayed with him for two years. She was a research associate at Columbia from 1961 to 1963.  She became a Professor at Rutgers Law School in 1963 and taught at Columbia Law School.  In 1972 she founded the Women’s Rights Project and became the organization’s legal counsel in 1973.  She argued six gender discrimination cases before the Supreme Court, winning five. She proceeded to amass a large winning record of discrimination cases that she argued before various courts, making large advances for women under the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.. Ms. Ginsburg was often compared to Justice Thurgood Marshall, the architect the the Civil Rights Movement’s promotion of racial equality and was also often called the Thurgood Marshall of the Women’s Rights Movement.