A Conversation with Justice Sonia Sotomayor - Annual David M. Rubenstein Lecture

David Rubenstein sits down with Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor for a conversation about her life and work.

The Annual David M. Rubenstein Lecture, a conversation between Justice Sonia Sotomayor and David Rubenstein, was the final event of the 2018 Induction Weekend and served as the 2072nd Stated Meeting of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

The event was held on Sunday, October 7, 2018 at the American Academy in Cambridge, MA.

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Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, earned a BA in 1976 from Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude and receiving the university’s highest academic honor. In 1979, she earned a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal.

She thereafter served as Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office from 1979–1984. She then litigated international commercial matters in New York City at Pavia & Harcourt, where she was an associate and then partner from 1984–1992.

In 1991, President George H. W. Bush nominated her to the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, and she served in that role from 1992–1998. She then served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1998–2009. President Barack Obama nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on May 26, 2009, and she assumed this role on August 8, 2009.

She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.

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David M. Rubenstein is Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman of The Carlyle Group, which was founded in 1987. Mr. Rubenstein practiced law in New York with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison from 1973–1975 and then served as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments from 1975–1976. From 1977–1981, during the Carter administration, Mr. Rubenstein was Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. After his White House service and before co-founding Carlyle, Mr. Rubenstein practiced law in Washington with Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman).

Mr. Rubenstein is Chairman of the Boards of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Council on Foreign Relations; a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation; a Trustee of the National Gallery of Art, the University of Chicago, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Brookings Institution, and the World Economic Forum; and President of the Economic Club of Washington.

He is a member of the Business Council, Harvard Global Advisory Council (Chairman), Madison Council of the Library of Congress (Chairman), Board of Dean’s Advisors of the Business School at Harvard, Advisory Board of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University (former Chairman), and Board of the World Economic Forum Global Shapers Community. Mr. Rubenstein has served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Duke University and as Co-Chairman of the Board of the Brookings Institution. He is an original signer of The Giving Pledge and a recipient of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy. Mr. Rubenstein is the host of The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations on Bloomberg TV and PBS.

He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013.