Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor returns to Bronx for college speech

sotomayor.jpgSupreme Court judge Sonia Sotomayor speaks at a press conference in 2009.

NEW YORK

&mdash U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is coming home to the Bronx.

Sotomayor is making her most high-profile visit to the borough today since becoming the first Hispanic on the nation's highest court.

Her schedule includes delivering a commencement speech at Hostos Community College. Her mother graduated there in 1973 with a nursing degree.

She'll visit the Catholic grade school she attended in the 1960s.

She also is scheduled to attend a ceremony at the public housing development where she grew up. It will be renamed the Justice Sonia Sotomayor Houses and Community Center.

President Obama nominated Sotomayor, a Princeton University graduate, as associate justice of the Supreme Court on May 26, 2009.

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