FAST FACTS: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

(CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, US Supreme Court Justice.

Personal

Birth date: March 15, 1933

Birth place: Brooklyn, N.Y.

Birth name: Joan Ruth Bader

Father: Nathan Bader, merchant

Mother: Celia (Amster) Bader

Marriage: Martin David Ginsburg (June 23, 1954-June 27, 2010, his death)

Children: Jane Carol and James Steven

Education: Cornell University, B.A., 1954; Harvard Law School, 1956-1958; Kent scholar, Columbia Law School, LL.B., 1959

Religion: Jewish

Other Facts

Served on the DC federal appeals court with Justice Clarence Thomas.

Launched American Civil Liberties Union Women’s Rights Project.

Named one of Forbes Magazine’s 100 Most Powerful Women from 2004 through 2011.

Nominated by President Clinton in 1993.

Timeline

1959-1961: Law clerk to a judge in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York.

1961-1963: Research associate and associate director, Project of International Procedure at Columbia Law School.

1963-1972: Professor at Rutgers University School of Law.

1972-1980: Professor at Columbia University School of Law; the first woman to be hired with tenure at the law school.

1973-1980: General Counsel for the ACLU.

1977-1978: Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, Calif.

1980-1993: Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Aug, 10, 1993: Is sworn in as Supreme Court Justice filling the seat held by Justice Byron White.

Dec. 12, 2000: Is one of the four dissenting votes in Bush V. Gore which resolves the disputed 2000 presidential election in favor of Texas Gov. George W. Bush.

Oct. 5, 2002: Is inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.

Jan. 26, 2007: In a speech at Suffolk Law School, says she dislikes being the only woman on the Supreme Court. Ginsburg says she has disagreed with former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor “on a lot of important questions, but we have had the experience of growing up women and we have certain sensitivities that our male colleagues lack.”

Aug. 9, 2010: Receives the American Bar Association’s highest honor, the ABA medal.

Aug. 31, 2013: Becomes the first Supreme Court justice to officiate at a same-sex marriage ceremony.

Nov. 26, 2014: Undergoes a heart procedure to have a stent placed in her right coronary artery.

July 11, 2016: Criticizes Donald Trump, calling the presumptive Republican presidential nominee a “faker.” A few days later, she issues an apology and says the remarks were inappropriate for a judge to make.

January 2018: Indicates, by the hiring of law clerks for at least two more terms, the intention to stay on the Supreme Court bench at least until 2020.

July 29, 2018: During a speaking appearance, Ginsburg says she plans to stay on the Supreme Court for “at least five more years.”

Nov. 8, 2018: Ginsburg is admitted to George Washington University for observation following a fall in her Supreme Court office that fractured three ribs. She is released from the hospital the following day.

Dec. 21, 2018: The Supreme Court announces Ginsburg had two cancerous nodules removed from her left lung at a New York hospital. There is no evidence of any remaining disease, says a court spokesperson.