Yale Daily News

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Miller: Sotomayor 'a dedicated and serious young woman'

Staff Reporter
Published Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Before Sonia Sotomayor LAW ’79 was nominated to the Supreme Court, she was a student at Princeton — and a classmate of Yale College Dean Mary Miller.

Along with four other students, Sotomayor and Miller served on a student search committee for a new assistant dean of student affairs. Frustrated with the process, the group wrote a letter to the editor in the September 12, 1974, issue of The Daily Princetonian.

In the letter, which can be read in full here, the students criticized the search’s focus on selecting...

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