First Hispanic in the Supreme Court

Sonia Sotomayor is a Latina from Puerto-Rican origin

Nominated to replace retiring Justice David Souter

Sonia was raised in the NYC borough of The Bronx

Her father did not speak English

Sonia was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes at age 8

The next year her father passed away

"I realized that the judge was the most important player in that room," Sonia said.

Sonia’s mother was a nurse that worked six days a week to send her two children to Catholic school

Sonia was intrigued by law since she was a child

Sonia decided that she wanted to be a judge after watching the TV show Perry Mason

Graduated from Princeton University and then Yale Law School.

Famous for ending the baseball strike in 1995

Proud of her heritage as a Latina woman