A 14-year-old student didn't win the contest but got a nice thank-you note from the subject of her essay, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
"The fine essay you composed about me brightened my day," Ginsburg wrote to Maggie Gibbs, a student at Chesapeake Middle School in Chesapeake, Ohio. She signed the letter: "With every good wish and hope that you will thrive in your studies and see your dreams come true."Maggie wrote the essay for a contest about women making history. It was sponsored by several state agencies. About two weeks ago, after she heard she hadn't won, classmates told her she had received a letter from the Supreme Court.
"I didn't believe 'em one bit," Maggie said. But she went to the school office and found a handwritten letter from Ginsburg, imprinted with the seal of the United States. "My teacher got hysterical," Maggie said.