She was nearly two decades older than the median age — 68 — for all federal judges, according to an Insider analysis.
More than a century later, in the 1920s, future Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes argued for a mandatory retirement age.
In 1954, the Senate passed a resolution proposing a constitutional amendment that'd require retirement at age 75 for federal judges.
A recent poll by Insider and Morning Consult found that 71% of 2,210 respondents said the federal judiciary should have a mandatory retirement age.
For Scheindlin, the former federal judge in Manhattan, Weinstein was an example of an older judge who was "terrific to his last day."