My Beloved World (47 page)

I whip up some homemade Chinese food for the gang at Yale.

The wedding shower, with maid of honor Marguerite Butler
(right)
and college roommate Mary Cadette
(left)

With Kevin in the Rocky Mountains on our road trip out West, second summer at Yale

Discovering the grandeur of America’s wide open spaces for the first time, while struggling to figure out a career plan

Visiting with Dolores Chavez at her parents’ home in Albuquerque. She and her father did a beautiful rendition of the ballad “Cucurrucucú Paloma.”

Sonia Sotomayor, Assistant District Attorney, representing the people of the County of New York

 … and the badge to prove it

Partners and associates of Pavia & Harcourt gathered to celebrate a wedding of one of their own soon after I became a judge. David Botwinik is at bottom left and George Pavia is beside him.

With Alessandro Saracino-Fendi, the client who became like a brother

The annual courthouse follies: After much rehearsal, I make a serviceable singing hobo alongside U.S. District Court Judges Charles S. Haight, Jr., and Jed S. Rakoff

With Robert M. Morgenthau (“The Boss”) on the day I was sworn in

Three generations of Sotomayor women: my niece Kiley, Mami, and me

My Yale mentor, now Circuit Court Judge, José Cabranes administered the oath of office at my induction to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.