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Sonia Sotomayor
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US Supreme Court justice since 2009
Sonia Sotomayor is a judge who has served on the United States Supreme Court, the highest court in the country, since 2009. Her role involves hearing important legal cases and helping decide major questions about what the Constitution and laws mean for all Americans.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Maria
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- The Bronx
- Occupation
- jurist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Image
- Sonia Sotomayor 7 in robe, 2009.jpg
- Work location
- Manhattan
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- Sonia Sotomayor
- date of birth
- 1954-06-25
- medical condition
- type-1 diabetes
- name in native language
- Sonia Sotomayor
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Encyclopedic overview
Sonia Maria Sotomayor ( /ˈsoʊnjə ˌsoʊtoʊmaɪˈjɔːr/ , Spanish: [ˈsonja sotomaˈʝoɾ]; born June 25, 1954) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009, and has served since August 8, 2009. She is the first Hispanic justice and the third woman U.S. Supreme Court justice.
Sotomayor was born in the Bronx, New York City, to Puerto Rican-born parents. Her father died when she was nine years old, and she was subsequently raised by her mother. She graduated with high honors from Princeton University in 1976 and received her Juris Doctor in 1979 from Yale Law School, where she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. She worked as an assistant district attorney in New York for four and a half years before entering private practice in 1984. 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.
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