Nominations must include a nomination letter that demonstrates how the candidate/s has met the criteria described below: Nomination letters shall identify candidates and be presented to the NCSC President. Candidates must be nominated by a member of the Conference of Chief Justices, the Conference of State Court Administrators, or NCSC Board of Directors. Referring to iCivics as well as to the retired justice’s overseas travel to help emerging countries establish democratic political systems and independent judiciaries, Ginsburg said O’Connor “has strongly reminded us that this country could lose the rule of law if we do not act to protect our precious heritage.This award is presented annually. She did take to the stage when Ginsburg delivered a tribute to her on behalf of all three current women on the high court. O’Connor, 85, observed much of the event from a wheelchair, perched in the front row alongside Ginsburg and Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and other donors.) The endowment fund was established with more than $1 million from donors including the Foundation of the International Association of Defense Counsel, the John D. ( UPDATE: iCivics announced Thursday that the Legacy Fund will provide “a dependable, increasing source of income” to support the organization’s mission. Dubé announced that the grant would be used to endow the Sandra Day O’Connor Legacy Fund at iCivics. In February, iCivics was awarded a $750,000 grant by the MacArthur Foundation as a recipient of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. “Our competition is the worksheet” that students bring home with questions such as “Name the three branches of government,” said Dubé, who added that she became convinced of the project’s promise when her own 4th grader came home after playing the site’s games and said, “All of school should be like iCivics.” Looking at one measure, there were some 5,000 teachers registered to use the site in 2012. The program is now thriving, said Louise Dubé, the executive director of iCivics. But she become sold on it once educators developed the site. And O’Connor was initially uncomfortable with the idea of teaching civics through online games, because “it sounded frivolous,” O’Sullivan said. “Nobody wants to support civics, they want to support STEM,” said O’Sullivan, referring to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. As the economy was hitting recession then, there was little in the way of philanthropy available. O’Sullivan was drafted by O’Connor to help develop iCivics beginning in 2008. The group’s award to O’Connor also recognized her work with two other institutions, the Avon Global Center for Women and Justice, at Cornell University law school, and the Virtue Foundation, a nonprofit that works on global health-care and education issues. That group aims to advance women and girls as leaders in government, business, and nonprofits. But when she began speaking out on that issue after her retirement, she realized many Americans didn’t understand why an elected judiciary was problematic, Julie O’Sullivan, a law professor at Georgetown University who served as a law clerk to the justice, said at the event before several hundred participants of the Seneca Women Global Leadership Forum. O’Connor was motivated by another concern of hers: the election of state judges, which she believes leads to a politicization of the judicial process.
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