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No. Justice Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American appointed to the US Supreme Court. President Johnson nominated the former NAACP Legal Defense Fund chief counsel to the Court in 1967, where he served until his retirement in 1991. Justice Marshall died in 1993.
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FranSandra Day O'Connor joined the US Supreme Court in its 1981 Term. The first case on the calendar was Ralston v. Robinson, 454 US 201 (1981), argued Monday, October 5, 1981, and decided 6-3 for Ralston, O'Connor voting with the minority.
Justice O'Connor's first written opinion was for the second case on the calendar that day.
Watt v. Energy Action Educational Foundation, 454 US 151 (1981)
The Court held California had standing to challenge the US Secretary of the Interior's bidding system for leasing tracts of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act of 1953.
The decision was 9-0 in favor of Watt.
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