Great Americans Medal Presentation - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Friday, March 25, 2022
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Posted by: Phi Alpha Delta
The Great Americans Medal will be presented to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 6:30 EST.
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Information about this medal:
THE GREAT AMERICANS MEDAL
The Great Americans Medal is the National Museum of American History’s highest honor and is awarded for lifetime contributions embodying American ideas and ideals. The medal honors individuals who have not only made a lasting impact in their fields, but whose humanitarian and philanthropic endeavors set them apart.
The Great Americans award program is supported by philanthropist and former chair of the Smithsonian’s Board of Regents David M. Rubenstein. “This awards program connects an honoree’s accomplishments and influence on American history to the museum’s collections and exhibitions for a broader understanding of our shared democracy and values,” said Anthea M. Hartig, Ph.D., the museum’s Elizabeth MacMillan Director.
The specially-minted presentation medal was struck in Wisconsin in 1.85 ounces of fine gold. It is 1.5 inches in diameter and features an American eagle with sun rays on the obverse or “head’s side” with the words “Great Americans” and “National Museum of American History” engraved around the edge. The reverse side honors one of the museum’s most important
treasures, the Star-Spangled Banner, and includes the mission of the Smithsonian: “For the increase and diffusion of knowledge.” The medal was inspired by the rare Double Eagle coins designed by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, enlisted in 1903 by President Theodore Roosevelt to design the $20 gold piece. The medal was made possible by museum board member Jeff Garrett and designed by Michael Guilfoyle, an international designer of coins and medals.
JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice, was born in Brooklyn, New York, March 15, 1933 and died in Washington, DC on September 18, 2020. She married Martin D. Ginsburg in 1954, and is survived by a daughter, Jane, and a son, James. She received her B.A. from Cornell University, attended Harvard Law School, and received her LL.B. from Columbia Law School. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Edmund L. Palmieri, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, from 1959–1961. From 1961–1963, she was a research associate and then associate director of the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure. She was a Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law from 1963–1972, and Columbia Law School from 1972–1980, and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California from 1977–1978. In 1971, she co-founded the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, and served as the ACLU’s General Counsel from 1973–1980, and on the National Board of Directors from 1974–1980. She served on the Board and Executive Committee of the American Bar Foundation from 1979–1989, on the Board of Editors of the American Bar Association Journal from 1972–1978, and on the Council of the American Law Institute from 1978–1993. An honorary member of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, International. She was appointed a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1980. President Clinton nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and she took her seat August 10, 1993.
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