Former US judge Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman appointed to the US Supreme Court and considered one of the moderate voices on that court, died on Friday at the age of 93, Agerpres reported.

Sandra Day O’Connor, a moderate conservative, was appointed to the Supreme Court by former US President Ronald Reagan in 1981. Although she was appointed for life, she retired in 2006 to care for her ailing husband, John O’Connor, who had Alzheimer’s, who died three years later. In 2018, she herself announced that she was leaving public life to take care of “dementia, probably Alzheimer’s”.

Because of her centrist views while a member of the Supreme Court, she often tipped the scales in key verdicts, such as upholding Roe v. Wade in 1973, which recognized the right to abortion and legalized termination of pregnancy. at the national level of pregnancy. Sandra O’Connor was on the side of the progressive judges against the conservative ones in this case. In June 2022, Roe v. Wade case law was overturned by the current conservative majority Supreme Court.

In another case, Sandra O’Connor joined the conservative majority on the Supreme Court by blocking the 2000 Florida recount that allowed Republican George W. Bush to defeat Democrat Al Gore.