List of Guests at Sotomayor White House Event
President Obama and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor at the White House on Wednesday. (Getty)
Here's a list of invited guests at Wednesday's White House reception for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor:
• First Lady Michelle Obama
• Celina Sotomayor, Justice Sotomayor's mother
• Omar Lopez, stepfather of Justice Sotomayor
• Juan Sotomayor, brother of Justice Sotomayor
• Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens
• White House Counsel Gregory Craig
• EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson
• Labor Secretary Hilda Solis
• Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.)
• Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.)
• Sen. Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.)
• Rep. Pedro Pierluisi (D-Puerto Rico)
• Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.)
• Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)
• Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.)
• Rep. José Serrano (D-N.Y.)
• Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.)
• Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)
(President Obama also said that Sens. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) were in attendance.)
• Dennis Jacobs, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Robert Katzmann, U.S. Circuit Judge, Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Pierre Leval, U.S. Circuit Judge, Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Barrington Parker, U.S. Circuit Judge, Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• David Tatel, U.S. Circuit Judge, Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
• Rosemary Pooler, U.S. Circuit Judge, Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Gov. David Paterson (D-N.Y.)
• Polly Baca, former Colorado state legislator
• Former FBI Director Louis Freeh
• Wade Henderson, president/CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
• Amy Mercado, president of the Orange County, Fla. Democratic Hispanic Caucus
• New York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau
• Elizabeth Moynihan, widow of Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan
• Janet Murguia, president and CEO of the National Council of La Raza
• Karen Narasaki, executive director of the Asian American Justice Center
• John Payton, director-counsel and president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
• Former secretary of Energy and Transportation Federico Peña
• Lillian Rodriguez-Lopez, president of Hispanic Federation
• Ramona Romero, president of the Hispanic National Bar Association
• Ted Shaw, professor of professional practice at Columbia Law School
• Raul Yzaguirre, executive director and presidential professor of practice at The Center for Community Development and Civil Rights at Arizona State University
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Ed O'Keefe
| August 12, 2009; 11:00 AM ET
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