Sotomayor sonia m biography of abraham

Sonia Sotomayor – the fearless federal trial court judge who saved Major League Baseball from a ruinous 1995 strike – entered the record book as the first Hispanic and the third woman to serve on the High Court.

Sotomayor, for the benefit of our readers abroad, is the first Latina to sit on the United States Supreme Court.

First Latina Supreme Court Justice in the history of the United States.

At the back are an excellent timeline and photos.

Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court Justice, is the 16th hero in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies for ages 5 to 8.

Justice Sotomayor was a lawyer and judge until she was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Obama in

Sotomayor was born in the Bronx on June 25, 1954 to Juan Sotomayor and Celina Baez, both native Puerto Ricans. 

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Sotomayor was born in The Bronx, New York City, to Puerto Rican-born parents on June 25, 1954.

Her father died when she was nine, and she was subsequently raised by her mother. Sotomayor graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1976 and received her Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1979, where she was an editor at the Yale Law Journal.

She worked as an assistant district attorney in New York for four and a h