Sonia Sotomayor

By Conor Smith

Backround Info

• Sonia was born on June 25, 1954• Sonia’s parents were Juan Sotomayor and Celina

Báez • Sonia was born in Bronx, New York• Sonia has Puerto Rican backround

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Sonia Sotomayor with parents

Childhood

• Sonia was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age eight

• Around this time her father died of heart problems• Also she began to speak fluent English• Sonia graduated valedictorian at Cardinall Spellman

High school

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Sonia at age 13

College

• Sonia attended Princeton University on a full scholarship

• There were only about 20 Latinos at the college• Sonia was a History major

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Princeton University logo

Law School

• Sonia entered Yale University in the fall of ’76 on another scholarship

• There were also few Latinos there at the time• Sonia became an editor on the Yale Law

Journal

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Yale University Logo

Early Legal Career

• Sonia was hired out of law school as a assistant district attorney under New York County district

• She help convict the “Tarzan Murderer” case (who acrobatically entered apartments, robbed them, and shot residents for no reason)

• She also worked on a case of “Police Brutality”

• http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/16/sotomayor.district.attorney/index.html

A Blurry picture of the Tarzan Murderer(Richard Maddicks)

Nomination into U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York

• Sonia was nominated into the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on November 27, 1991 by President George W. Bush

• Sonia became the youngest judge on the Southern District

• She was one of seven women among the 58 judges on the Southern District

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A view of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

Nomination into the Court of Appeals Second Circuit

• Sotomayor was nominated into the Court of Appeals Second Circuit on June 25, 1997 by President Bill Clinton

• Sonia appealed over 3,000 cases over the ten years on the Circuit Court

• Out of the 3,000 cases she appealed the Supreme Court only looked at five, turned down three and affirmed two

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This is the U.S Court of Appeals Second Circuit Seal

Nomination into Supreme Court

• Sonia was nominated into the Supreme Court on August 9, 2009 by Barack Obama

• Sonia became the only second jurist to be nominated into three different judicial positions by three different presidents

• Sonia is still on the Supreme Court to this day

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Supreme Court

Sonia once said “Its not the heart that compels conclusions to cases, it’s the law.”

The End