HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH

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Sonia Sotomayor

  Sonia Sotomayor was born June 25, 1954. She is one of the Associate Justices for the United States Supreme Court. She is the first Hispanic justice and the third only the third female justice. Sotomayor is of Puerto Rican descent. She graduated from Princeton University, where she was 1 of about 20 Latinos that attended the school, and received her Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.

  Sonia Sotomayor has accomplished many things in her life time. While at Yale Law School she was the editor of the Yale Law Journal. She was also the assistant district attorney in New York for five years. She had a major role on the board 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.

  Sotomayor was appointed in to the U.S. District Court for the southern district of New York in 1992 by President George H. W. Bush. In 1998, she was nominated in to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. And in 2009 she was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Barack Obama.