Justice O'Connor brings experience, wisdom to Boston

She blazed a trail for women in the legal profession, becoming the first female to serve on the US Supreme Court, but retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor sat mostly in silence yesterday morning as a visiting judge in Federal District Court in South Boston, offering only brief interrogatories while two other panel judges dissected a series of cases. (Full article: 649 words)

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