Flag Half Staff Notice - Dec. 19, 2023
Mark of Respect for Sandra Day O'Connor, retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
by Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon
December 18, 2023
In accordance with a proclamation by the President of the
United States, Governor Mark Gordon has ordered both the
United States and Wyoming flags to fly at half-staff
beginning at midnight until sunset on Tuesday, Dec. 19,
2023, the day of interment, as a mark of respect for the
memory and longstanding service of Sandra Day O'Connor,
retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States.
The Presidential Proclamation follows:
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was an American icon, the first
woman on our Nation’s highest court. 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. 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.
As a mark of respect for the memory and longstanding service
of Sandra Day O’Connor, retired Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States, I hereby order, by the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of
the United States of America, that on the day of her
interment, the flag of the United States shall be flown at
half staff at the White House and upon all public buildings
and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and
on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the
District of Columbia and throughout the United States and
its Territories and possessions until sunset on such day. I
also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff for
the same period at all United States embassies, legations,
consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all
military facilities and naval vessels and stations.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourth
day of December, in the year of our Lord two thousand
twenty-three, and of the Independence of the United States
of America the two hundred and forty-eighth.
JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.
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