Justice Sotomayor wows crowd at UTSA

Texas was the first state Sonia Sotomayor, the associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, visited after her book tour was launched in 2013. While in Austin, she discovered that busloads of San Antonians had come to see her.

“I was so deeply touched that people did that, that I made a promise: I told them that the next time I came to Texas, San Antonio would be my first stop,” she said.

And so it was, with the justice wandering among rows of audience members, shaking hands and offering warm smiles throughout a talk Thursday morning at the University of Texas at San Antonio. It drew more than 1,000 people to a small auditorium and overflow rooms.

Responding to a series of student-generated questions, Sotomayor, 63, wove together a story of perseverance and discovery.

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