"Sonia Sotomayor graduated summa cum laude from Princeton in 1976 and from Yale Law School in 1979. She worked as an assistant district attorney in New York and then at the law firm of Pavia & Harcourt. From 1992 to 1998, she served as a judge of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, and from 1998 to 2009 on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In May 2009, President Barack Obama nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court; she assumed this role on August 8, 2009.” (From the Knopf web page)

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Biography in Context: Brief article and short list of resources from Contemporary Authors 

Book Reviews

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See book reviews by Jason Farago and Nina Totenberg, which appear on the National Public Radio website.

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Video & Audio Interviews

YouTube.com - interviews with Sonia Sotomayor

More Reading about Sonia Sotomayor

	Sonia Sotomayor: a biography by Meg Greene AC Frost Library: KF 8745.S67 G74 2012
	Confirmation hearing on the nomination of Hon. Sonia Sotomayor, to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States [electronic resource] : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, July 13-16, 2009. [Click on the link which says: "CLICK HERE FOR ALL CALL NUMBERS AND ITEM AVAILABILITY", then on the link which says: "Click here to access this Five College electronic resource"]

Past Summer Readings

Summer Reading 2012
Dreaming in French (Alice Kaplan)

Summer Reading 2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot)

Summer Reading 2010
Half the Sky (Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn)

Summer Reading 2009
The Green Collar Economy (Van Jones)

Summer Reading 2008
Native Guard (Natasha Trethewey)

Summer Reading 2007
Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi)

Summer Reading 2006
Mountains Beyond Mountains (Tracy Kidder)

Summer Reading 2005
Kettle Bottom (Diane Gilliam Fisher)

Summer Reading 2004
The Gangster We Are All Looking For (Lê Thi Diem Thúy)

Summer Reading 2003
Atonement (Ian McEwan)

Summer Reading 2002
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (Barbara Ehrenreich)

Summer Reading 2001
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Anne Fadiman)

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