The first woman to serve as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court should have been the first woman to serve as the chief justice of the United States. Sandra Day O'Connor would have been a brilliant choice for that symbolic position for many legal and political reasons. At a time when the court specifically and the federal judiciary in general could use a jolt of public respect and support, O'Connor would have taken the reins as Lady Justice, one of the most well- known and culturally in-tune major-league judges in recent history. A grandmother who looks like one, and...