Ruth Bader Ginsburg to be honored with forever stamp, USPS says. When you can get it
Activist and late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be honored with a new stamp, the U.S. Postal Service announced.
Ginsburg, who served nearly 30 years on the nation’s highest court, is one of several esteemed subjects who will be featured in the agency’s 2023 stamp program, according to a news release.
The ”forever” stamp features an oil painting of Ginsburg in her black judicial robe paired with an ornate white collar she became known for wearing.
“The standard robe is made for a man because it has a place for the shirt to show, and the tie,” Ginsburg told the Washington Post in 2009. “So (then-Justice) Sandra Day O’Connor and I thought it would be appropriate if we included as part of our robe something typical of a woman. So I have many, many collars.”
The stamp, designed by Ethel Kessler with art by Michael J. Deas, will be available for purchase next year, though official dates haven’t been announced, the USPS said.
Ginsburg died in September 2020 from complications with pancreatic cancer. She was 87 years old.
“After beginning her career as an activist lawyer fighting gender discrimination, Justice Ginsburg became a respected jurist whose important majority opinions advancing equality and strong dissents on socially controversial rulings made her a passionate proponent of equal justice and an icon of American culture,” the USPS said in its announcement.
Other American icons to be honored with a ”forever” stamp include:
- Author Toni Morrison (1931-2019)
- Author Ernest J. Gaines (1933-2019)
- The works of artist Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)
- Indigenous civil rights activist Chief Standing Bear (ca. 1829-1908)
Additional stamps will be revealed in the coming months, the Postal Service said.