Readers are reminded that flags are to be lowered tomorrow, when the late Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will be interred.

The first woman to serve on the Supreme Court and an unwavering voice of moderate conservatism for more than two decades, O’Connor is lying in repose in the court’s Great Hall today.

The Arizona native died December 1 at the age of 93.

In announcing her death earlier this month President Joseph Biden in a proclamation called O’Connor “an American icon … She spent her career committed to the stable center, pragmatic and in search of common ground.

“Defined by her no-nonsense Arizona ranch roots, Justice O’Connor overcame discrimination early on, at a time when law firms too often told women to seek work as secretaries, not attorneys. She gave her life to public service, even holding elected office, and never forgot those ties to the people whom the law is meant to serve. She sought to avoid ideology, and was devoted to the rule of law and to the bedrock American principle of an independent judiciary.”

The Senate made her the first female justice on the Supreme Court by a 99-0 tally in 1981. What little opposition she did face was over her record on abortion when she had earlier served in the Arizona Senate, according to the Associated Press.

Her appointment ended 191 years of male exclusivity on the high court.

Biden’s proclamation continued: “Justice O’Connor never quit striving to make this Nation stronger, calling on us all to engage with our country and with one another, and her institute’s work to promote civics education and civil discourse has touched millions. She knew that for democracy to work, we have to listen to each other, and remember how much more we all have in common as Americans than what keeps us apart.”

O’Connor died of complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness. In 2018, she announced in a frank and personal letter that she had the beginning stages of dementia, and likely Alzheimer’s.

As a mark of respect for the memory and longstanding service of the retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Biden called for United States flags to be flown at half staff across the country on the day of her interment.

Funeral services for O’Connor are set for Tuesday at Washington National Cathedral, where the President and Chief Justice John Roberts are scheduled to speak.