CNN —Jimmy Carter, who served a single full presidential term without the chance to appoint a Supreme Court justice, nonetheless left behind an incomparable judicial legacy.
Carter named Ginsburg to an important Washington-based US Court of Appeals in 1980, which positioned her for eventual elevation to the Supreme Court.
Women made up 12 of his 59 circuit court appointees and 29 of his total 203 district court appointees.
Until Carter’s tenure, only two women had ever been named as circuit court judges and six as district court judges.
The second woman, named by President Bill Clinton in 1993, was Ginsburg, Carter’s earlier appellate court choice.
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