Another historic October Monday

OPINION:

I graduated from my local high school in 1981, which was quite a remarkable year. Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as the 40th president of the United States. 

That same year, Paramount Pictures released “First Monday in October,” starring Walter Matthau, Jill Clayburgh and Barnard Hughes. The movie was a sensational box-office hit, a work of art imitating life.

Shortly after his inauguration, President Reagan nominated Sandra Day O’Connor as our country’s first female associate justice of the Supreme Court. This year, President Biden’s historic nomination of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who shares my ethnicity, joins the ranks of female justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett. Jackson is the sixth female judge appointed to the Supreme Court. 

Surely yesterday was another historical “First Monday in October.”

WAYNE E. WILLIAMS
Camden, New Jersey