When Sandra Day O’Connor moved into her new adobe home in 1958, she was a young, self-employed lawyer starting a new life in her home state of Arizona. When she left in 1981, she was the first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Justice O’Connor’s home witnessed more than her remarkable journey as wife, mother, lawyer, legislator and jurist. For 25 years, the home also witnessed much of the state’s history. People got to know one another in this house, had fun and reached compromises that crossed party lines. In the process, friendships were created that helped make Arizona a better place to live.
THE O’CONNOR HOUSE PROJECT is a community effort to relocate both the original adobe house and the spirit of Sandra Day O’Connor to Arizona’s spectacular Papago Park. With your support, the house will once again be a gathering place where people find the level of compromise and consensus needed to move society forward.
Gifts in memory of John O’Connor should be made to:
Rio Salado Foundation for O’Connor House
P.O. Box 1737
Tempe, AZ 85280-1737