Sonia Sotomayor, Latina Supreme Court Justice

Happy Birthday to Sonia Sotomayor, born on June 25, 1954.  Sotomayor was appointed by President Barack Obama as the first Latina Supreme Court Justice.   Her Puerto Rican parents lived in the Bronx; her father died when she was 9 years old.   Her mother was determined to give her and her brother an education.  Sotomayor believes that her family was the only one in the neighborhood to own an Encyclopaedia Britannica set.  Sotomayor graduated from Princeton summa cum laude and earned her law degree from Yale.  In 1991, President George H. W. Bush appointed Sotomayor to the US District Court (New York).  She was sworn in as Justice to the US Supreme Court in August 2009.

Feliz cumpleaños a Sonia Sotomayor, nacida el 25 de junio de 1954. Sotomayor fue nombrado por el presidente Barack Obama como la primera latina en la Corte Suprema de Justicia. Sus padres puertorriqueños vivía en el Bronx, su padre murió cuando ella tenía 9 años de edad. Su madre estaba decidida a darle a ella ya su hermano a la educación. Sotomayor cree que su familia era la única en el barrio de poseer un conjunto Encyclopaedia Britannica. Sotomayor se graduó de Princeton summa cum laude y obtuvo su título de abogado en Yale. En 1991, el presidente George HW Bush nombró a Sotomayor a la Corte de Distrito de EE.UU. (Nueva York). Ella juró su cargo como Juez de la Corte Suprema de los EE.UU. en agosto de 2009.

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