Death of Sandra Day O'Connor

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Title 3--
The President

Proclamation 10682 of December 4, 2023

Death of Sandra Day O'Connor

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was an American icon, the
first woman on our Nation's highest court. She spent
her career committed to the stable center, pragmatic
and in search of common ground. Defined by her no-
nonsense Arizona ranch roots, Justice O'Connor overcame
discrimination early on, at a time when law firms too
often told women to seek work as secretaries, not
attorneys. She gave her life to public service, even
holding elected office, and never forgot those ties to
the people whom the law is meant to serve. She sought
to avoid ideology, and was devoted to the rule of law
and to the bedrock American principle of an independent
judiciary. Justice O'Connor never quit striving to make
this Nation stronger, calling on us all to engage with
our country and with one another, and her institute's
work to promote civics education and civil discourse
has touched millions. She knew that for democracy to
work, we have to listen to each other, and remember how
much more we all have in common as Americans than what
keeps us apart.

As a mark of respect for the memory and longstanding
service of Sandra Day O'Connor, retired Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, I
hereby order, by the authority vested in me by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, that on the day of her interment, the flag of
the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the
White House and upon all public buildings and grounds,
at all military posts and naval stations, and on all
naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District
of Columbia and throughout the United States and its
Territories and possessions until sunset on such day. I
also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff
for the same period at all United States embassies,
legations, consular offices, and other facilities
abroad, including all military facilities and naval
vessels and stations.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-three, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
eighth.