Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s daughter and granddaughter, Jane and Mimi Ginsburg, unveiled the new street sign at a ceremony outside James Madison High School
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The late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was immortalized by fellow alumni of James Madison High School with the co-naming of a Midwood street on Wednesday.
The corner of Bedford Avenue and Avenue P, which overlooks Ginsburg’s alma mater, will now officially be known as “Ruth Bader Ginsburg Way” in honor of the Brooklyn-born trailblazer.
The beloved legal eagle was born in Brooklyn in 1933, grew up on East 9th Street between avenues O and P, and attended P.S. 238 a block from her home.
Ginsburg went on to study at James Madison High School, Cornell University and Harvard and Columbia law schools, where she became the only woman to make two major law reviews.
After she finished her studies, Ginsburg went on to teach at Rutgers Law School and Columbia Law School and co-founded the Women’s Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, where she advocated for gender equity and women’s rights.
Following her work at the ACLU, Ginsburg was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in 1980, and to the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton in 1993 where she served until her death in 2020.
The late justice’s daughter and granddaughter, Jane and Mimi Ginsburg, unveiled the new street sign at a ceremony outside the high school on May 29. Members of the James Madison Alumni Association spearheaded the effort to co-name the street in honor of Ginsburg, who has left a lasting mark on the school.
In 1994, the high school named its law program’s mock courtroom in her honor. Jane Carbonaro Arrabito, co-president of the James Madison High School Alumni Association, said she met Ginsburg at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the courtroom.
“I met her when I was in between graduating law school and studying…
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