LOUISVILLE, Ky. — U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor will receive the highest honor given out by the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville on Feb. 5, 2025.

The Supreme Court justice is being honored with the Brandeis Medal and Lecture Series by the school. The honor recognizes a recipient chosen for their devotion to economic, social or political justice and for advancing the cause of public service in the legal profession, the school said.

Sotomayor will be the seventh Supreme Court justice honored with the medal, following Harry Blackmun, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Elena Kagan, Sandra Day O’Connor and John Paul Stevens. UofL said Sotomayor’s commitment to public service “reflects the many values for which Louis D. Brandeis is most known,” and that she serves as a model for Brandeis law students.

UofL said details about the 2025 Brandeis Medal Program would be released at a later date.

Born in the Bronx, New York, Sotomayor received her first federal appointment in 1991 under President George H.W. Bush to the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. In 1997, she was nominated by President Bill Clinton to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit where she served from 1998 to 2009 before being nominated to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009. She has served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court since Aug. 8, 2009.