Ruth Bader Ginsburg marked 25 years on the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, a milestone for one of the most liberal justices on the body.
Ginsburg became the second female justice on the court when she was tapped by President Bill Clinton in 1993, joining former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, according to CNN. She has become a liberal icon on the court.
Her "Notorious RBG" nickname, a play on the late rapper Notorious B.I.G., was created as a response to a 2013 dissent Ginsburg wrote when the court majority issued a milestone decision rolling back voting-rights protections, CNN wrote.
Ginsburg, 85, recently said that she hopes to stay on the Supreme Court at last least five more years, when she will turn 90, the broadcaster said.
"My senior colleague, Justice John Paul Stevens, he stepped down when he was 90, so I think I have about at least five more years," Ginsburg said, according to Fortune magazine.
She has survived bouts with colorectal cancer in 1999 and pancreatic cancer in 2009, CNN noted.
A native New Yorker, Ginsburg taught at Rutgers University Law School and then at Columbia University, where she became its first female tenured professor, according to History.com. She served as the director of the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union during the 1970s and was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 1980.
Ginsburg will the subject of the upcoming biopic "On the Basis of Sex," starring Academy Award nominee Felicity Jones as the justice. The first trailer for the movie was released in July, the same month that her fellow justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the body, the website Quartz.com wrote.
CNN wrote that Ginsburg carries the commercial tote bag with the words "I dissent," possibly noting the current minority status of liberals on the bench. The network said when asked during a public appearance recently how she wanted to be remembered, she said, "As someone who did the best she could."
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