U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will join AALS President Erwin Chemerinsky in conversation
about her life, career, and thoughts about how law schools can make a
difference. Justice
Sotomayor will appear via live video conference, and will take audience
questions as selected and moderated by President Chemerinsky in San Diego.
There is no virtual option to attend the program.
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
a member of Phi Beta Kappa and receiving the Pyne Prize, the highest academic
honor Princeton awards to an undergraduate. 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. In 1997, she was nominated by President Bill Clinton
to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit where she served 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.
We ask all attendees at the Justice’s event to refrain from taking photos and recording