Justice Sotomayor Speaks at Alabama Law School

0:00It's April 9th. Welcome in. This is Birmingham News Today, where local news meets AI. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor heads to the University of Alabama School of Law today for a big speaking gig. She's the star of the 2026 Albertan Lecture, hitting the stage of Ming-Millian Lecture Hall at 2.20pm and wrapping at 3.20pm. This event spotlights her trailblazing path since President Barack Obama tapped her for the high court back in 2009. She broke barriers as the first Hispanic justice and only the third woman on the Supreme Court, hailing from the Bronx with Puerto Rican roots. Her career stacked up early, graduating from Princeton and Yale Law, then grinding as an assistant district attorney in New York, jumping to private, practice, and climbing to federal judge on district and appeals courts. Keep an ear out for the insights she drops this afternoon, straight from one of the sharpest minds shaping American law.