From a Bronx housing project to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has overcome poverty, illness and adversity to fulfill her American dream.
The Supreme Court justice will speak about her life and sign copies of her memoir, “My Beloved World,” at Lisner Auditorium at 7 p.m. on Wednesday. The event, “Sonia Sotomayor's Remarkable Journey to the Supreme Court,” is sponsored by the Smithsonian Associates.
Free tickets are available to George Washington University faculty, staff, students and alumni through a lottery system. To enter, they must complete this entry form before Tuesday at noon. Those who are randomly selected will be emailed Tuesday with information about how to receive their tickets.
Justice Sotomayor grew up in a Bronx, N.Y., housing project. She suffered from juvenile diabetes and her father, an alcoholic, died when she was 9. Justice Sotomayor was able to overcome these obstacles to graduate summa cum laude from Princeton University and earn a J.D. from Yale Law School. She was a New York District Court judge and a U.S. Court of Appeals judge before becoming the first Hispanic justice to be named to the Supreme Court in 2009.