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About the Center for American Women and Politics

The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is nationally recognized as the leading source of scholarly research and current data about American women’s political participation. More

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Obama Appoints Sotomayor

Judge Sonia SotomayorThe appointment of Federal Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court makes President Barack Obama only the third U.S. president to name a woman to the top court. President Reagan was the first when he appointed Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who served from 1981 - 2006. Current Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed by President Clinton in 1993. More information about President Obama’s appointments of women is available here.

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