Sotomayor, the court's first Hispanic and third female justice, will speak in April, but the full details of the visit have not yet been released.
NEW BRUNSWICK -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will speak at Rutgers University this spring, the university announced Tuesday.
Sotomayor, the court's first Hispanic and third female justice, will speak in April, but the full details of the visit have not yet been released.
A Bronx native, Sotomayor earned her bachelor's degree at Princeton University before attending law school at Yale and becoming an attorney and judge.
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She was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2009.
Sotomayor's appearance will come after former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell speaks in October.
Mitchell, the principal investigator and author of a 2007 report on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball, will speak at 7:30 p.m. at Trayes Hall on the Douglass campus in New Brunswick.
Both Sotomayor and Mitchell are speaking at Eagleton Institute of Politics programs and registration is required. Details are available at eagleton.rutgers.edu
Rutgers also announced that activist Gloria Steinem will speak at the Newark campus on Sept. 25 during a day-long gender equality conference.
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