Sonia Maria Sotomayor was born in the South Bronx on June 25, 1954 whose parents immigrated from Puerto Rico in search for the American Dream. After going to Cardinal Spellman Highschool, she graduated with highest honors from Princeton University. She went on to Yale Law School and became an editor for the Yale Law Journal. After that, for firve years shw worked as a prosecuter for Manhatten district attorney Robert Morgenthar. Then, for another eight years, she practiced international business law. And for the past 17 years, she served on the federal bench. Most recently as a judge in the U.S Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Most would describe Sonia Sotomayor's life story as a fariy tale and they'ed be wrong. But if you'd ask her, she'd probably tell you life was good. She had a freat relationship with her mom, her brother and had a tight group of friends who cared. Her father died when she was nine of heart complications. A year before her father died, she was diagnosed with diabetes. From then on she'd have to take on insuline shot right before every mean. She loved taking time to teache people about diabetes.
Her mother says, "Sonia was born knowing", and I'd agree with her; the Justice is wise beyond her years. It is obvious that her family and friends love her very much.
"She has always had a capacity to walk in the other person's shoes."
-Sonia's mom,
Celina Sotomayor
So there you have it, Justice Sonia Sotomayor. This is what the editor of Latina magazine, Mimi Valdes Ryan, had to say about Justice Sotomayor:
"The story will make you even prouder that somone like her-who truly is one
of us [a latina]-sits on the highest court in the land."
-Mimi Valdes Ryan,
Editor-in-Chief of Latina Magazine
She has been hailed as "one of the ablest federal judges currently sitting" for her thoughtful opinions, and as "a role model of aspiration, discipline, commitment, intellectual prowess and integrity".
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