Where did Sandra Day O'Connor live during her childhood?

Answer 1

Sandra Day O'Connor currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

Answer 2

Sandra Day (O'Connor) was born March 26, 1930, in El Paso, Texas, but grew up on her parents' cattle ranch, the Lazy-B, in southeast Arizona.

Day's childhood was reminiscent of life in the Wild West. The ranch had neither running water nor electricity until 1937, and her nearest neighbors lived 25 miles away. Sandra learned to drive a farm truck at the age of seven, and could shoot a rifle by age eight. She befriended the ranch hands, rode horses like a cowboy, and even had a pet bobcat.

Because the ranch was so isolated, Day was sent to live with her grandmother and attended the exclusive Radford School until her mid-teens. Due to homesickness, she moved back to the ranch in 1945, and graduated high school the following year, at age 16.

After high school, she attended Stanford University with a major in economics, intending to manage the Lazy-B someday. A legal dispute over the ranch sparked her interest in law.

Day enrolled in Stanford Law School in 1950, earning her J.D. in just two years, and graduating third in her class behind future Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who was first.

She also met her future husband, John Jay O'Connor, while in law school.

Answer 3

Sandra Day O'Connor currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

Answer 4

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor retired from the US Supreme Court in 2006. She is not employed, but is active in lecturing, educational programs, and law school mock trials, among other things.