Bryn Mawr College honors Sotomayor

BRYN MAWR Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor visited Bryn Mawr College on Friday to receive the 2015 Katharine Hepburn Medal.

Awarded by the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center at the school, the medal recognizes "women who change their worlds: those whose lives, work, and contributions embody the intelligence, drive, and independence of the four-time Oscar winner and her namesake mother, an early feminist activist."

Recipients are chosen for their commitment and contributions to the Hepburn women's great passions - civic engagement and the arts.

President Obama nominated Sotomayor as an associate justice of the Supreme Court in May 2009, and she assumed that role in August of that year.

The Hepburn Center is the only organization authorized by the Hepburn estate to commemorate the lives and achievements of Katharine Hepburn, Bryn Mawr Class of 1928, and her mother, Katharine Houghton Hepburn, Bryn Mawr Class of 1900. - Inquirer staff