Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was laid to rest beside her husband in Arlington Cemetery during a private ceremony.
The Tuesday burial came 11 days after the justice died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer. The 87-year-old lay in state inside the U.S. Capitol in a flag-draped casket on Friday, becoming the first woman to receive the honor.
While Arlington Cemetery, located in Virginia near Washington, D.C., across the Potomac River, is known for its rows of hundreds of thousands of plain white grave markers, Ginsburg was buried in an older part of the cemetery known as Section 5. Her headstone is black and adorned with the Star of David on top, according to the Associated Press.
She was buried next to her husband of 56 years, Martin Ginsburg, and is joined in Arlington Cemetery by nine other Supreme Court justices, three of whom she served with in life: Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Justice John Paul Stevens, and Justice Harry Blackmun, who wrote the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
Ginsburg’s burial comes the same day as President Trump’s nominee to replace her, Amy Coney Barrett, met with Republican senators ahead of her confirmation hearings. Trump also formally sent Barrett’s nomination to the Senate on Tuesday.
