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==== Public speaking engagements ==== On May 15, 2006, O'Connor gave the commencement address at the [[William & Mary School of Law]], where she said that judicial independence is "under serious attack at both the state and national level".<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.wm.edu/law/cnews/show_news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1147725549&archive=&start_from=&ucat=3&|title=Maintain Judicial Independence O'Connor Tells Law Graduates|author=Whitson, Brian|access-date=September 19, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060908210008/http://www.wm.edu/law/cnews/show_news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1147725549&archive=&start_from=&ucat=3&|archive-date=September 8, 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2008, O'Connor was named an inaugural [[Harry Rathbun]] Visiting Fellow by the Office for Religious Life at [[Stanford University]]. On April 22, 2008, she gave "Harry's Last Lecture on a Meaningful Life" in honor of the former Stanford Law professor who shaped her undergraduate and law careers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stanford.edu/group/religiouslife/eventsRathbun.html|title=Office for Religious Life at Stanford University|access-date=April 23, 2008|archive-date=July 26, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726214456/http://www.stanford.edu/group/religiouslife/eventsRathbun.html|url-status=live}}</ref> On September 17, 2014, O'Connor appeared on the television show ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' and provided a couple of video answers to the category 'Supreme Court' which appeared on the show. On the same day in [[Concord, New Hampshire]], she gave a talk alongside her former colleague [[Justice David Souter]] about the importance of meaningful civics education in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.constitutionallyspeakingnh.org|title=Constitutionally Speaking New Hampshire|publisher=Constitutionallyspeakingnh.org|access-date=November 2, 2015|archive-date=November 7, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151107005138/http://www.constitutionallyspeakingnh.org/|url-status=live}}</ref>
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