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Before U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor addressed a crowd of 1,700 at the Lied Center on April 7, she gathered a much smaller audience. At a Lawrence elementary school the previous day, Sotomayor read excerpts from her children\u2019s book, Just Shine!<\/em>, and answered students\u2019 questions about her life and career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That Sotomayor\u2019s two-day visit to Lawrence this week began with reading to public school children in their library seems no accident. Sotomayor, who is of Puerto Rican descent and grew up in a Bronx housing project, told the Lied Center crowd that she was 10 or 11 when she decided she would go to college and become a lawyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That early interest was inspired by the first chapter book that Sotomayor ever read, Nancy Drew. Initially, Sotomayor said she wanted to be a detective like Nancy Drew, but those plans were thwarted following her childhood diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes. A few years after being diagnosed at age 7, she was given a chart at the doctor\u2019s office that had two columns: one listing careers she could do, and the other listing those she couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe \u2018can\u2019t do\u2019 started with being a police officer,\u201d she said. \u201cIt continued with, you can\u2019t fly a plane, you can\u2019t be a truck driver, you can\u2019t be in the military. There was a whole list of \u2018can\u2019t do.\u2019 And the list of \u2018can do\u2019 started with doctor, lawyer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sotomayor said when she realized she couldn\u2019t be a detective, her dream was \u201ccrushed.\u201d It would be another fictional character, this time TV lawyer Perry Mason, who would reincarnate that dream. She said that for half of each episode of the show, Mason would investigate the crime his client was charged with, then would appear in court in the other half. \u201cHe\u2019s playing detective as a lawyer,\u201d she recalled thinking. \u201cMaybe I should become a lawyer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI tell this story to kids because growing up to want to become something doesn\u2019t just happen on its own,\u201d Sotomayor said. \u201cYou get struck by something that you\u2019re exposed to. And reading can do a lot of that. For me, Nancy Drew started the process, but television continued it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor (center) at the Lied Center April 7, with KU alumnae, sisters and event moderators Mary Murgu\u00eda (left) and Janet Murgu\u00eda.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sotomayor shared that it was watching Perry Mason argue his cases that first gave her the thought of being a judge someday. Though the aspiration was there, she was quick to admit she didn\u2019t really understand what it entailed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy neighborhood as a child was a housing project in New York City, in the Bronx,\u201d she said. \u201cThere were no doctors, there were no lawyers in the housing project. There were certainly no judges. And I didn\u2019t really know what I was aspiring to be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Sotomayor got older, those fictional characters were replaced with real-life examples. That included civil rights lawyers such as Thurgood Marshall and Constance Baker Motley, who were integrating schools across the nation. She watched as judges in the South, including Frank Johnson, a federal judge in Alabama, issued landmark rulings dismantling segregation. She said this was even though those Southern judges had been educated to believe segregation was the right thing for society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese men had crosses burnt on their front yards,\u201d Sotomayor said. \u201cThey and their families were threatened. And they so believed in the power of law that they followed it. And they\u2019re the ones that ultimately inspired me to become a lawyer. And it\u2019s their model that I\u2019m trying to follow as a judge\u2014to do what I think the Constitution requires.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sotomayor graduated from Princeton University and Yale Law School before later ascending through the courts, from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. But like the column of \u201ccan\u2019t do\u201d she faced as a child, Sotomayor met resistance, particularly following her Supreme Court nomination. She said there were \u201ca lot of naysayers.\u201d Those who said she wasn\u2019t smart enough, those who called her \u201can average judge who would be an average Supreme Court justice\u201d or said she wouldn\u2019t make any contributions to the court. At one point, Sotomayor said she was considering withdrawing from the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt really hurt me,\u201d she said. \u201cI had spent a career working hard at everything I did. I had done pretty well in Princeton and pretty well in Yale, and, you know, getting a District Court judgeship and getting a Court of Appeals appointment was not easy. And I knew that my colleagues respected and liked me, and to be publicly criticized that way\u2014I actually thought about pulling out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, Sotomayor said it was a conversation with a friend and fellow Latina that renewed her commitment. Sotomayor recalled the friend coming to her and saying, \u201cSonia, this is not about you. This is about my 8-year-old daughter, who needs to see someone like her sitting on the highest court in the land.\u201d Though she worried whether she would make it every step of the way, Sotomayor said being a trailblazer as a Latina is a pressure she\u2019s learned to embrace, and she encourages others to do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBeing a first is a symbol for all that follow,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s opening the door for others who can do what I\u2019ve done and more. I tell every young Latina that I meet: One of you has to come take my place. One of you has to be president someday. It\u2019s a special responsibility. We have to do it well. We have to work harder than other people do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The notion of continued hard work extends to all, she said, when it comes to sustaining the republican form of government. One of multiple responses that gained Sotomayor a standing ovation from the Lied Center crowd was about that effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe beauty of this country is staggering; the differences are astonishing,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd yet, that we all are proud Americans is really an extraordinary feat by a nation. We have to hold on to that spirit of permitting our differences to exist while being united in building this more perfect union. … It requires work and requires active participation by all of us\u2014in making this great nation remain great.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The discussion, which was hosted by the School of Law, was moderated by two Latina trailblazers in their own right, twin sisters and KU alumnae Mary and Janet Murgu\u00eda. Mary Murgu\u00eda, c\u201982, j\u201982, l\u201985, is the first Latina to serve as chief judge of the federal appellate court in the U.S., and Janet Murgu\u00eda, c\u201982, j\u201982, l\u201985, serves as president and CEO of UnidosUS, the largest and one of the most influential Latino civil rights and advocacy organizations in the country. Other discussion topics included judicial discretion, the emergency docket, and Sotomayor\u2019s dissent in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, which argued against profiling by federal agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the last questions was whether Sotomayor, who has published a memoir and several children\u2019s books, was working on anything new. Sotomayor said she was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s another children\u2019s book, and it\u2019s called Just Try!<\/em>\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s about how to deal with the fear of trying something new.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rochelle Valverde, c\u201908, j\u201915, is staff writer for Crimson & Blue.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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