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Last update: November 12, 2009 - 8:09 PM

John J. O'Connor III, 79, an Arizona lawyer and civic leader who became active in Washington's social and charitable circles after his wife, Sandra Day O'Connor, became the first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, died Nov. 11 in Phoenix. He had Alzheimer's disease. As a lawyer, O'Connor specialized in business and real estate law and commercial litigation. He represented leading companies in industries including mining and financial services. He declined to talk about his rare role as the man behind one of the country's most powerful women. "I've just decided to refrain from publicly commenting on the subject unless I want to spend the rest of my life being interviewed," he said in 1981. WASHINGTON POST

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