Court News: Women Justices Speak at Buckeye Girls State

tions, and it was great to see that they are people just like us.”

Buckeye Girls State is a weeklong program, held at the University of Mount Union in Alliance, that educates girls in good citizenship while helping them learn the mechanics of city, county, and state government through a non-partisan approach.

The justices spoke to the students about the judicial system and how they became Ohio Supreme Court justices. The justices also answered several questions from the girls about the court system, being a women leader and balancing their lives.

“If we can do it, you can do it. You’ve learned more about us. You know what our stories are and you can see, number one we’re ordinary people with ordinary talents and maybe a little extraordinary drive and we happen to be in extraordinary positions,” Chief Justice O’Connor told the girls.

BGS is sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary of Ohio. It’s one of the largest Girls States in the nation with around 1,000 students participating each year. This was the first time in the program’s history that all of the women on the Supreme Court participated in BGS.

This program was titled “The Power of One” and was modeled on a program the justices participated in last year to celebrate Rosa Parks Day.

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