I don’t mean women are just as good as men at lawyering. I mean they’re better. Let me explain.

But first a story. I have a distant connection to recently deceased former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

O’Connor grew up on an Arizona cattle ranch. Her home was nine miles from the nearest paved road and didn’t have running water or electricity until she was seven.

She was very smart. At age 16, she left the ranch and went to Stanford to earn a degree in Economics. In 1952, she graduated third in her class from Stanford Law School. (That was back when Stanford was still teaching law and law students were still expected to learn it.)

Along the way, four men asked O’Connor to marry them, including future Chief Justice William Rehnquist. (That was back when men asked women to marry them and women were expected to answer yes or no.) She turned down the first three, including Rehnquist, and married the fourth.

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