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Tuesday, Aug. 10,1993 White House Associated Press D eclaring that "the times are changing," Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1993 became the second woman to sit on the United States Supreme court. At her swearing in ceremony, the 60- year-old women's rights pioneer said that "in my lifetime, I expect there will be among federal judicial nominees...as many sisters as brothers inlaw." "That prospect is indeed cause for hope, and its realization will be cause for celebration," she added. Ginsburg, who became the 107th Supreme Court Justice, joined Sandra Day O'Connor, a justice since 1981. Ginsburg won several landmark Supreme Court cases as a lawyer for the ACLU Woman's Rights Project in the 1970's. She was the prime architect of the legal argument, radical at the time, that the Constitution usually requires equal treatment of men and women. 40