Sonia Maria Sotomayor, born June 25, 1954, is the first Hispanic, man or woman, to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Raised in the Bronx borough of New York City, Sotomayor attended Princeton University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, after which she attended Yale Law School and earned her Juris Doctor.

    Sotomayor served as judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, which was where she ended the MLB strike of 1994, one of her more notable rulings. In 1997, Sotomayor was nominated by President Clinton for, and in 1998 approved, a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Then in April 2009, Sonia Sotomayor was nominated by President Obama to fill the spot in the Supreme Court which was vacated by Justice David Souter. She was approved on August 6th 2009, making her the first ever Hispanic to serve on the United States Supreme Court.