The Yale Law Journal

Michelle Friedland

Tribute

Lessons from My Mentor, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor

Michelle Friedland

author. Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; Law Clerk for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, 2001-02. I thank my law clerks Rianna Hidalgo and Becca Hansen for their helpful edits to drafts of this tribute. I had the great fortune to clerk for Justice O…