Sotomayor credits Nancy Drew novels and the Perry Mason television show for her inspiration to become a judge, a decision she says she made at age 10.
When a prosecutor on one episode said he didn't mind losing when a defendant turned out to be innocent, "I made the quantum leap: If that was the prosecutor's job, then the guy who made the decision to dismiss the case was the judge. That was what I was going to be."
Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayors is Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Sonia Sotomayor's official title is Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; however, the associate justices are simply addressed to as "Justice," as in Justice Sotomayor.
Sonia Sotomayor, an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, has dark brown eyes.
Sona Sotomayor is the first Hispanic to ever serve in the Supreme Court. Some people believe Justice Benjamin Cardozo was Hispanic; however, he was of Portuguese descent, which is considered a different ethnic group.
Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court nomination happened in 2009.
In 2009, President Obama nominated the first Latina supreme court justice, Sonia Sotomayor. She was confirmed in the summer of 2009.
Sonia Maria SotomayorJustice Sotomayor is the first Latina justice to serve on the US Supreme Court; however, she is not the only Latina judge in the federal court system.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor is alive and well and hearing cases before the US Supreme Court as you read this answer.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who joined the Court in August 2009
Sonia Sotomayor was appointed as a judge to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1992. She later became a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 2009. Sotomayor was confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice on August 6, 2009, making her the first Latina Supreme Court Justice.
All nine US Supreme Court justices work in the Supreme Court Building in Washington, DC.