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Justice Ginsburg to speak on two great passions: law, opera

Justice Ginsburg to speak on two great passions: law, opera

If not for her monotone voice, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would have been a great operatic diva. Instead, she became what she considered to be the next best thing: a lawyer.

The first woman to serve on the prestigious Harvard Law Review and the first tenured female professor at Columbia Law School, Ginsburg won four out of the five cases she argued before the Supreme Court preceding her appointment to the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton in 1993. The law may be her calling, but opera was her first love.