Last Thursday evening, while most Temple faculty, staff and students were eating dinner, Dean JoAnne A. Epps of Temple's Beasley School of Law was busy making history in the nation's capitol. At 7:15 p.m., Epps testified before the members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in support of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Epps, who spoke on behalf of the National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL), said that Sotomayor is "highly qualified to serve as an associate justice of the Supreme Court" and that "her appointment would advance the very important message that women have a contribution to make at the highest levels" of the legal profession.