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Four years. Sandra Day O'Connor was elected to the Maricopa County Superior Court, in Arizona, in 1975 and served as a judge there until she joined the Arizona Court of Appeals in 1979. O'Connor remained on the state Court of Appeals until President Reagan nominated her to be the first female Supreme Court justice in 1981. Justice O'Connor retired from the US Supreme Court in 2006, and was succeeded by Justice Samuel Alito.

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