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9.12.2022 - New Board Appointments and Officers Announced

9.7.2022 - Sandra Day O'Connor Civics Celebration Week Collaboration

7.1.2021 - Sandra Day O'Connor Institute For American Democracy Announces New Board Appointments

10.29.2020 - Sandra Day O'Connor Institute For American Democracy Launched

5.18.2020 - Sandra Day O’Connor Institute Launches O’CONNOR U

1.13.2020 - Governor Doug Ducey Announces Sandra Day O’Connor Civics Celebration Day in His State of the State Address

7.19.2019 - Sandra Day O’Connor House Named to National Register of Historic Places

6.4.2019 - 2019-2020 O'Connor Institute Board of Director's Appointments

5.28.2019 - Snell & Wilmer Chair Matthew P. Feeney Elected Chair of the Sandra Day O'Connor Institute

8.8.2018 - Arizona Historical Society, in partnership with Sandra Day O’Connor Institute, to Host Portraits of Courage, Traveling Exhibit of Works by President George W. Bush

11.27.2017 - Former CIA Director James Woolsey To Speak In Phoenix

3.7.2017 - Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes to Speak in Phoenix

2.6.2017 - Garry Kasparov Russian Pro-Democracy Leader To Speak In Phoenix; World Chess Titleholder and Chess Legend Now Human Rights Champion

1.30.2017 - Camp O'Connor: Free Civics Summer Camp For Middle School Students. O’Connor Institute and Arizona Bar Foundation Launch Inaugural Civics Camp in Phoenix, Arizona

1.23.2017 - Pulitzer Prize Winner Doris Kearns Goodwin To Speak in Phoenix - “Dinner With Lincoln” O’Connor Institute Annual History Dinner

12.1.2016 - A Supreme Evening of Jazz Concert To Benefit ASU Law Students: International Artists Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi To Perform On Twin Grand Pianos

7.11.2016 - Nobel Peace Prize Recipient President F.W. De Klerk Speaking In Phoenix

6.14.2016 - Pulitzer Prize Winner Jon Meacham To Speak In Phoenix For "Dinner With Jefferson: An Evening at Monticello"

5.4.2016 - Sandra Day O'Connor Institute Announces New 2016/2017 Board Members

3.17.2016 - Chris Matthews, "Hardball' Host and “Tip and The Gipper: When Politics Worked” Author To Speak In Phoenix March 21

3.11.2016 - Chinese Ambassador To The United States To Speak In Phoenix

1.26.2016 - Sandra Day O'Connor Institute and Sojourner Center Announce New Home for the SAFE Action Project

10.19.2015 - Sandra Day O'Connor Institute Announces Future Home At Arizona Center For Law and Society

9.30.2015 - Sandra Day O'Connor Institute Announces New Board Members

9.1.2015 - New Smithsonian Institute Secretary and CEO To Speak In Phoenix

8.18.2015 - O'Connor Institute SAFE Action Project Now Offers Unique Online Training

7.15.2015 - National "More Than A Survivor" Exhibit in Phoenix With Local Advocate Featured

5.13.2015 - Dinner With Churchill Launches O'Connor Institute: Relive Historic White House Dinner Shared by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill

4.2.2015 - O'Connor House Becomes Sandra Day O'Connor Institute Associated Press

3.24.2015 - O'Connor House Becomes Sandra Day O'Connor Institute

2.26.2015 - O’Connor House To Honor Two Arizona Statesmen: “A Supreme Evening For Country” Honorary Co-Chairs are Senators Dennis DeConcini and Jon Kyl

1.21.2015 - Arizona Lodging Industry Helps Combat Child Sex Trafficking

1.15.2015 - Four-Star General Duncan McNabb To Speak In Phoenix

10.18.2014 - Giffords, O'Connor, others discuss gun-violence issues  NBC News KPNX

9.16.2014 - Former Latvian President and Global Leader Dr. Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga To Speak In Phoenix

9.4.2014 - “Debate Watch Arizona” Offers Gubernatorial Debate For Statewide Viewing

8.4.2014 - Arizonans' lackadaisical voting habits embarrass former Justice O'Connor  Arizona Republic

6.25.2014 - "The Great Voter Challenge" Deadline Rapidly Approaching To Register For The Primary Election

6.2.2014 - O'Connor House Announces New Board Members and Officers

3.5.2014 - Working Across The Aisle: Creating A Functioning Democracy, Senator Sam Nunn, Senator Alan Simpson to Visit Valley April 30

10.1.2013 -A Combined Difference: O'Connor House, Others Collaborate on Legal Solutions Arizona Attorney Magazine

9.23.2013 - The Great Voter Challenge Launched For Arizona

9.3.2013 - O'Connor House Launches Sandra Day O'Connor Oral History Project

7.15.2013 - Sex Traffic Researchers to Train Hotel Staff on Warning Signs  CBS 5 KPHO

7.10.2013 - O'Connor House Receives Anonymous Funding to Combat Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking

5.22.2013 - O'Connor House Announces New Board Members

5.3.2013 - O'Connor House Presents Special Constitution USA Screening May 20

3.19.2013 - Colin Powell to Speak in Phoenix April 23

3.19.2013 - Sandra Day O'Connor Believes Chalupas and Beer Have a Big Place in Politics  The Washington Examiner

2.11.2013 - NAU Gets A Civics Lesson From Sandra Day O'Connor  Arizona Daily Sun

2.6.2013 - Washington Post Foreign Affairs Columnist David Ignatius Coming to Valley

9.18.2012 - Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Teams With O'Connor House
The University of Arizona l Institute for Civil Discourse

8.27.2012 - O'Connor House Names Sarah E. Suggs President & CEO

7.21.2012 - Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Interviewed by Peter Sagal for New PBS Special  "Constitution USA"

2.29.2012 - O'Connor House Launches Distinguished Speakers Series

9.18.2011 - O'Connor House Aims To Bridge Ideological Gaps  Arizona Republic

3.24.2010 - Historic O'Connor house rebuilt in Papago Park, Justice's transplanted adobe a place for minds to meet Arizona Republic

5.6.2008 - O'Connor Home To Be Moved Next To Museum In Tempe Tucson Citizen

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