A Conversation with Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Lecture Date
10-16-2017
Description
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor joins Judge A. Gail Prudenti, Dean of the Maurice A. Deane School of Law, at Hofstra University's Fortunoff Theater for a wide-ranging conversation about the Justice’s journey from the South Bronx to the Ivy League to the highest court in the land.
Recommended Citation
Sotomayor, Sonia; Prudenti, A. Gail; and Rabinowitz, Stuart, "A Conversation with Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor" (2017). Other Lectures and Presentations. 4.
https://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/lectures_other/4
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Speaker Information
Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice,
was born in Bronx, New York, on June 25, 1954. She earned a B.A. in 1976 from Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude and receiving the university’s highest academic honor. In 1979, she earned a J.D. from Yale Law School where she served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal. She served as Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office from 1979–1984. She then litigated international commercial matters in New York City at Pavia & Harcourt, where she served as an associate and then partner from 1984–1992. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush nominated her to the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, and she served in that role from 1992–1998. She served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1998–2009. President Barack Obama nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on May 26, 2009, and she assumed this role August 8, 2009.