Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Designed and executed a deliberate, sequenced litigation strategy at the ACLU Women's Rights Project in the 1970s, choosing specific plaintiffs — including male plaintiffs — to build sex-discrimination precedent incrementally.

Argued six gender-discrimination cases before the Supreme Court in the 1970s and won five, a directly attributable persuasive record before that specific audience.

Graduated tied for first in her Columbia Law class yet was unable to secure a law firm position or clerkship on the basis of her sex in the late 1950s, before building the academic and litigation career that eventually reached the Supreme Court.

This is consistent with the profile's high persistence: building a defining legal career from a starting point of explicit, documented professional exclusion. Persistence

Continued working through five separate cancer diagnoses and treatments across two decades on the Court, maintaining her full opinion-writing and argument schedule during treatment.

Chose deliberately unconventional plaintiffs — men denied benefits available only to women — for her 1970s sex-discrimination cases specifically to make the doctrinal point starker to an all-male bench, a calculated departure from the more straightforward case selection colleagues initially proposed.

This tracks the profile's high analytical_rigor and risk_tolerance: a calculated strategic choice that ran against conventional legal advice at the time. Analytical Rigour