Ruth Bader Ginsburg Treated for Pancreatic Cancer

Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court was seen in Washington in 2013.

Ginsburg was born Joan Ruth Bader on March 15, 1933. She is now 2 years old.

A photo of Ginsburg from his high school yearbook.

Ginsburg, 13, sits immediately to the left of Rabbi Harry Halpern at the East Midwood Jewish Center, a Brooklyn synagogue, New York, in 1946.

Ginsburg and his cousin Richard ski in an Adirondack pavilion around 1946.

Ginsburg is the maid of honor of a cousin's wedding in 1951.

Ginsburg met her husband, Martin, while studying at Cornell University, and both went on to study law. The couple was engaged in December 1953.

Ginsburg and her husband were married in June 1954. She was then 21 years old.

The couple had two children: Jane, born in 1955, and James, born in 1965.

Portrait of Ginsburg dating from 1977. At the time, she was a professor at the Columbia University School of Law. She was also General Counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union.

Members of the family joined Ginsburg on the US Supreme Court marts after pleading a case in November 1978. With Ginsburg, left, his brother-in-law, Ed Stiepleman; his nephew David Stiepleman; and his son, James.

Ginsburg was the first woman to be hired at Columbia University School of Law. She has also taught at Rutgers University's Faculty of Law.

Ginsburg, her husband and their two children – James and Jane – pose for a photo off St. Thomas in 1979.

In 1980, the President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, appointed Ginsburg Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals of the Federal District of Columbia.

Ginsburg in his rooms at the American courthouse in Washington.

Ginsburg, her husband and their children spend their holidays in Egypt in 1985.

Ginsburg and her husband take a bus to Paris around 1988.

Ginsburg reads to a group of children the tenth anniversary of the television show "Reading Rainbow" in 1993.

President Bill Clinton appointed Ginsburg to the United States Supreme Court in June 1993. Ginsburg here holds a picture of Hillary Clinton singing "The Song of the Toothbrush" with Ginsburg's granddaughter, Clara, and his kindergarten class.

Clinton applauds Ginsburg after his speech at the White House Rose Garden. She was the proposed candidate to replace retired Justice Byron White.

Ginsburg talks with a journalist after being appointed to the Supreme Court in 1993. On the far right is US Senator Joe Biden. US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan is wearing the bow tie.

Ginsburg is greeted by her husband at the confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

During his confirmation hearing, Ginsburg presents a book entitled "My grandmother is very special". It was written by Paul Spera, his grandson.

In August 1993, Chief Justice William Rehnquist took the oath to the Supreme Court. Right, Ginsburg. Clinton and Martin Ginsburg joined them.

Ginsburg poses with members of his family on the Supreme Court in October 1993. Ginsburg, from left to right, is his son-in-law, George Spera; his daughter, Jane; his granddaughter Clara Spera; her husband, Martin; his son, James; and his grandson Paul Spera.

Ginsburg and her husband kiss while attending an event. Both were married for nearly 60 years. Martin Ginsburg died in 2010.

This informal group photo was taken by the United States Supreme Court in December 1993. Left, Clarence Thomas, John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Sandra Day O. Connor, Anthony Kennedy , David Souter, Ginsburg and Harry Blackmun.

Scalia and Ginsburg pose on an elephant during their tour in India in 1994. Scalia once said that they were an "odd couple" and he considered her "best friend" on the bench.

Ginsburg, second from left, and Scalia, second from right, participated in the opening production of Ariadne auf Naxos, the opera at the Kennedy Center in Washington in 1994.

Ginsburg and his colleague, Judge Sandra Day O. Connor, organize basketball balls donated by the American women's basketball team in December 1995.

Ginsburg, at the front right, poses with other American Jewish personalities while he was in a maze at Ellis Island, in 1996, as part of a project by photographer Frederic Brenner. Still on the front row, on the left, are artist Roy Lichtenstein, actress Lauren Bacall, violinist Itzhak Perlman and playwright Arthur Miller.

Ginsburg sits in his office of the Supreme Court in 2002.

Ginsburg goes through a crowd after speaking at an ACLU conference in June 2003.

Ginsburg and her husband laugh while listening to Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, speaking at Columbia Law School in September 2003.

Ginsburg poses with President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in January 2005. Ginsburg sworn Rice in.

Ginsburg meets a Buddhist abbot at the Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou, China, in 2005.

From left to right, judges Stephen Breyer, John Roberts, Ginsburg and Anthony Kennedy of the Supreme Court take the picture before meeting French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris in July 2007.

Ginsberg wears a "Super Diva" sweatshirt while she is training at the Supreme Court in August 2007.

Ginsburg talks with director David Grubin about his PBS series "The Jewish Americans" in 2008.

Ginsburg arrives at a joint congressional session where President Barack Obama was speaking in 2009. That month, Ginsburg undergoes surgery and treatment for the early stages of pancreatic cancer. A decade earlier, she had undergone surgery for colon cancer.

The only women who became judges of the Supreme Court pose together in 2010. Sandra Day O. Connor, Sonia Sotomayor, Ginsburg and Elena Kagan are left.

While he was about to receive an honorary degree from Harvard University, Ginsburg was surprised by a serenade of the Spanish tenor Placido Domingo in 2011. Domingo also received an honorary degree.

Ginsburg visits Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the State Department in Washington in 2012.

Ginsburg, with an extra "Carmen", attends the opera at the Kennedy Center in Washington in 2015.

Ginsburg applauded the applause before a conference in Chicago in September 2017.

Ginsburg arrives to speak at the Faculty of Law at New York University in February 2018.

Ginsburg and other Supreme Court justices attend the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony at the White House in November 2018.

The US Supreme Court, along with newest member Brett Kavanaugh, poses for an official portrait in Washington in November 2018. In the back row, left, are Neil Gorsuch, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Kavanaugh. In the front row, on the left, Stephen Breyer, Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Ginsburg and Samuel Alito.

Ginsburg leaves a private ceremony in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court, where former Judge John Paul Stevens was resting in July 2019.