Sonia Maria Sotomayor (/ ˈsoʊnjə ˌsoʊtoʊmaɪˈjɔːr / ⓘ, Spanish: [ˈsonja sotomaˈʝoɾ]; [1] born ) [2] is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Sonia Sotomayor associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 2009. She was the first Hispanic and the third woman to serve on the Supreme Court. The daughter of parents who moved to New York City from Puerto Rico, Sotomayor was raised in a housing project in the Bronx. After the
A former federal and appellate judge, Sonia Sotomayor became an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2009. She is the first Latina justice in history.
Sonia Maria Sotomayor was born in the Bronx, New York on , to father, Juan Sotomayor and mother, Celina Baez. Both of her parents were born in Puerto Rico, moved to the United States, met after World War II, and married after Celina served in the Women’s Army Corps.
Sonia Sotomayor was born in Bronx, New York, on . She earned a B.A. in 1976 from Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude and a member of Phi Beta Kappa and receiving the Pyne Prize, the highest academic honor Princeton awards to an undergraduate.
WASHINGTON — Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued an unusual apology Wednesday for critical remarks she made about the upbringing of one of her conservative colleagues, Justice ...
Sonia Sotomayor – the fearless federal trial court judge who saved Major League Baseball from a ruinous 1995 strike – entered the record book as the first Hispanic and the third woman to serve on the High Court. Sotomayor was born in the Bronx on to Juan Sotomayor and Celina Baez, both native Puerto Ricans.