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Michigan health director recounts Ginsburg: ‘Fierce defender of equality, a brilliant jurist’
Read full article: Michigan health director recounts Ginsburg: ‘Fierce defender of equality, a brilliant jurist’The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) director and a Wayne State University Law School professor are recounting their interaction with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. MDHHS Director Robert Gordon clerked for Ginsburg right out of Yale Law School. “She was a quiet person. “She was a wonderful combination of fierce defender of equality, a brilliant jurist and a kind human being.”Wayne State University Law School’s distinguished professor Robert Sedler is a contemporary of Ginburg’s, and they crossed paths over the years fighting for gender equality. The concern for people, the concern for equality, the concern for rights that is reflected in her opinion comes out when you meet her as a person,” he said.