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The late Supreme Court Justice will be one of the few women whose likeness adorns the building\u2019s grand staircase<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Blaine Friedlander<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This story was condensed from <\/em>a feature<\/em><\/a> in the<\/em> Cornell Chronicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first time in 125 years, the face of a celebrated New Yorker will join the pantheon of historic people commemorated at the New York State Capitol\u2019s Great Western Staircase: Ruth Bader Ginsburg \u201954, the late associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen Ruth Bader Ginsburg was asked when there would be enough women on the U.S. Supreme Court, she famously replied, \u2018When there are nine,\u2019\u201d said Governor Kathy Hochul at a mid-March rehearsal to place the stone portrait. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy carving her portrait into the Capitol, we are both honoring Justice Ginsburg\u2019s legacy as a trailblazer for justice and gender equality, and also celebrating New York\u2019s history as the birthplace of the women\u2019s rights movement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We are both honoring Justice Ginsburg\u2019s legacy as a trailblazer for justice and gender equality, and also celebrating New York\u2019s history as the birthplace of the women\u2019s rights movement.<\/p>\nGovernor Kathy Hochul<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Later this spring, the Ginsburg portrait will be permanently installed on the second floor of the staircase, commonly known as the Million Dollar Staircase<\/a>. While there are currently 77 well-known faces adorning the walls, the Ginsburg portrait location will be directly above John Jay, the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s first chief justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ginsburg was born Joan Ruth Bader in New York City and grew up in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. At Cornell, she majored in government in the College of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Her carved portrait will be the first new one added to the staircase since its completion in 1898, according to the governor\u2019s office. Her likeness will be portrayed in the same style as the existing 19th-century portrayals, carved in Corsehill sandstone from Scotland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the 77 other portraits on the staircase, the Ginsburg carving will be the seventh woman depicted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Others include suffragist leader Susan B. Anthony, Civil War nurse Clara Barton, and Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin<\/em> author Harriet Beecher Stowe.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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In November 2022, the Ginsburg family approved the portrait model by Meredith Bergmann<\/a>, sculptor of the Women\u2019s Rights Pioneers Monument in NYC\u2019s Central Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy brother and I\u2014and the entire Ginsburg family\u2014are deeply moved that our mother\u2019s home state of New York has honored her by placing her image in the magnificent Western Staircase,\u201d says Jane Ginsburg, the justice\u2019s daughter and a professor of law at Columbia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is particularly fitting that she will appear close to John Jay, her great predecessor on the U.S. Supreme Court, whom she admired.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top: Governor Kathy Hochul (right) and sculptor Meredith Bergmann view the work. (All photos by Darren McGee\/NYS Governor\u2019s Office<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published March 31, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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