FILE - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg arrives for President Barack Obama's State of the Union address in the Capitol on Tuesday, Jan.
20, 2015. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)LOS ANGELES - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, died at 87 of metastatic pancreatic cancer, according to the Associated Press.
She was the oldest sitting member on the court. Born Joan Ruth Bader on March 15, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York, she was the youngest of two children to Nathan and Celia Bader.
It was when Ginsburg was in kindergarten that she decided to go by her middle name Ruth, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.Ginsburg grew up in a low-income, working-class neighborhood of Brooklyn, where her father worked as a merchant and her.