AP: Sotomayor urges anxious grads to embrace future

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is presented a honorary doctorate by Vernon Jordan. (Courtesy Photo/Howard University)
Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Nominated by Barack Obama on June 1, 2009
Length of Service: 0 years, 9 months, 1 day
Roman Catholic
55 Years Old


WASHINGTON (AP) -- Justice Sonia Sotomayor says her first year on the Supreme Court has been a little like graduating from college: exciting, challenging and a little scary.

Sotomayor briefly addressed graduates of Howard University on Saturday after receiving an honorary law degree. She says she knows members of the class of 2010 may be a bit anxious about their future. But she says it's all about "what you make of it."

Sotomayor, the first Latina justice, also told graduates of the mostly black university that it's now their turn to give back to society and urged them to strive someday to join her on the Supreme Court.

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Speaker..very inspiring~

I guess that's all we'll be able to do.