Source: insidehighered. Posted By: Norman M...5419 days ago
Sonia Sotomayor, a federal appeals judge nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, has kept a hand in higher education throughout her judicial career, and has also ruled in several cases that affected academe.
Sotomayor, who has served since 1998 on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, began her college career at Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude in 1976. President Obama pledged to nominate a person of “empathy” to the bench, and Sotomayor’s own descriptions of her....