Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.In 1997, she was nominated by President Bill Clinton to the U.S.
Bush in 1991 confirmation followed in 1992. District Court for the Southern District of New York by President George H. She played an active role on the boards of directors for the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, the State of New York Mortgage Agency, and the New York City Campaign Finance Board. She worked as an assistant district attorney in New York for four-and-a-half years before entering private practice in 1984. from Yale Law School in 1979, where she was an editor at the Yale Law Journal. Sotomayor graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1976 and received her J.D. Her father died when she was nine, and she was subsequently raised by her mother. She was the first Hispanic and Latina Justice.Sotomayor was born in The Bronx, New York City, to Puerto Rican-born parents. She was appointed by President Barack Obama in May 2009 and confirmed that in August. :focal(561x245:562x246)/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/a6/53/a653a249-3505-4062-8341-a81fbaf587a8/jn2016-01125.jpg "sonia sotomayor")
Sonia Maria Sotomayor (Spanish: born June 25, 1954) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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