Statement from State Bar of Arizona President Helen Perry Grimwood On the Resignation of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor

July 1, 2005

The State Bar of Arizona thanks Justice Sandra Day O’Connor for her long, brilliant career of exemplary service to the Justice system, and for the honor that she has brought to the lawyers of Arizona. Before President Reagan appointed her as the first woman to the United States Supreme Court, she was an assistant Arizona Attorney General, Majority Leader of the Arizona State Senate, and an Arizona state court judge on both the trial bench and the Court of Appeals.

We are grateful that she has used her talent and great legal mind to benefit our justice system and the public, and that in doing so she never lost the pioneering spirit and common sense she developed growing up on her family ranch in Arizona. We look forward to welcoming her home to Arizona, and are proud that she has become a legal legend.