{"id":1244,"date":"2012-03-06T12:25:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T20:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2012-03-06T12:25:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T20:25:48","slug":"a-conversation-with-justice-sonia-sotomayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/a-conversation-with-justice-sonia-sotomayor","title":{"rendered":"A Conversation with Justice Sonia Sotomayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"yiv1430433674Section1\">\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"yiv1430433674MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><font color=\"black\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;\">Please join us for the 20th Annual<br \/>\n\t\t\tJoseph L. Rauh, Jr. Lecture<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"yiv1430433674MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><font color=\"navy\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"5\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;\">A Conversation with<\/span><\/font><font color=\"navy\" face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: navy;\"> <br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/font><font color=\"#0c3e71\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"6\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(12, 62, 113);\">Justice Sonia Sotomayor<\/span><\/font><font color=\"black\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"4\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/font><font color=\"black\" face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: black;\">Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIntroduction by <b><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Wade Henderson<\/span><\/b>, President,<br \/>\n\t\t\tLeadership Conference on Civil Rights and<br \/>\n\t\t\tJoe Rauh Professor of Public Interest Law<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"yiv1430433674MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><font color=\"red\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;\">&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: red;\">Registration Required<\/span><\/font><font color=\"black\" face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: black;\">: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.udc.edu\/event\/RauhLecture2012\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1331064106_0\">http:\/\/www.law.udc.edu\/event\/RauhLecture2012<\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/span><\/font><font color=\"black\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"5\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;\">Monday, April 2nd<br \/>\n\t\t\t6:00 p.m. Conversation<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"yiv1430433674MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><font color=\"black\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"5\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;\">7:30 p.m. Reception<\/span><\/font><font color=\"black\" face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: black;\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tUDC Auditorium, Building 46<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"yiv1430433674MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><font color=\"black\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;\">4200 Connecticut Avenue, NW<\/span><\/font><font color=\"black\" face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: black;\"> <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"yiv1430433674MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;\"><b><font color=\"#0c3e71\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(12, 62, 113); font-weight: bold;\">Admission is Free!<\/span><\/font><\/b><font color=\"black\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/span><\/font><font color=\"black\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;\">Underground Parking off Van Ness St .<br \/>\n\t\t\tMetro Red Line: Van Ness\/UDC<br \/>\n\t\t\tWheelchair accessible<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"yiv1430433674MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;\"><font color=\"black\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.udc.edu\/?page=RauhLecture\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">About the Annual Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. Lecture<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"yiv1430433674MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><font color=\"black\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.udc.edu\/?page=RauhProfessor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">About Wade Henderson, the Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. Professor of Public Interest Law<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tClick here<a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.udc.edu\/resource\/resmgr\/media\/rauh_19_koh_flyer.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Rauh Lecture Flier\"> <\/a>to download a flier for the event.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"yiv1430433674MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><font color=\"black\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.udc.edu\/event\/RauhLecture2012\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/www.law.udc.edu\/event\/RauhLecture2012\">http:\/\/www.law.udc.edu\/event\/RauhLecture2012<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><font color=\"black\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;\">&nbsp;<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/font><font color=\"black\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"4\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;\">About Sonia Sotomayor <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"black\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;\">From the Supreme Court of the United States website:<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1430433674MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 12pt;\"><span class=\"yiv1430433674bioname\"><font color=\"black\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;\">Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice,<\/span><\/font><\/span><font color=\"black\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;\"> 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&#39;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&#39;s Office from 1979&ndash;1984. She then litigated international commercial matters in New York City at Pavia &amp; Harcourt, where she served as an associate and then partner from 1984&ndash;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&ndash;1998. She served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1998&ndash;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.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><b><font color=\"black\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-weight: bold;\">Education<\/span><\/font><\/b><font color=\"black\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tJ.D., Yale Law School , 1979<br \/>\n\t\t\tB.A., Princeton University , 1976<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1430433674MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for the 20th Annual Joseph L. 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