Sonia Sotomayor Fast Facts

October 2, 1998 - Sotomayor was approved by the Senate after more than a year since Republican opposition campaign postponed the vote

July 12, 2010 - promised to write and publish memoirs with Alfred A. Knopf. According to the financial information disclosure form issued in 2011, it was later revealed that Sotomayor paid 11.75 million in prepayment.

January 15, 2013 - Sotomayor issues her memoirs "My beloved world" discussing her father's alcoholism, her struggle with diabetes and her divorce

April 16, 2018 - The spokesman said that he fractured his shoulders when he fell down. She will receive physical therapy as part of rehabilitation, but she will continue the work schedule.

Sonia Sotomayor was born on June 25, 1954, in a public housing project in the Bronx, New York State. Her parents Juan and Selina Sotomayor were Puerto Ricans who came to New York during the Second World War. Her father is a tool manufacturer who does not speak English, receiving third grade education. Her mother worked for the female supplement team during the war, then became a nurse. She brought up Sonja and her brother Juan, a doctor in Syracuse, New York. Sonya had a difficult childhood and faced various obstacles. She was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes (Type I) when she was 8 years old. Then her father died when she was 9 years old, and her mother raised her and her brother Juan only. Most of her story took place in Spanish until her father died and read as a consolation. She fell in love with detective Nancy Drew of popular child's mystery series. And it inspired the love of reading and learning people.

Sonia Maria Sotomayor was born in the Bronx in New York City where she grew up for years. Her parents Juan and Serena were born in Puerto Rico. Juan is a factory worker and Serena is a nurse. Immediately after Sonja was 3 years old, after her brother Juan was born, the family moved from a small apartment in South Bronx to a house in Bronx Dale, a public housing project. From kindergarten to 8th grade, Sonia Sotomayor studied at the Notre Dame school. Living at home is difficult as her father's deteriorating alcohol addiction makes the economic and friction between parents more serious. Little Sonya found a shelter inside the house of a loving grandmother who lives in the book and nearby. At the age of 7, Sonya was diagnosed with diabetes. Living with this illness taught her independence and she quickly learned to disinfect my needle and inject insulin

Federal judge Sonia Sotomayor was born on 25 June 1954, the elder of two children in South Bronx, New York. Puerto Rico's parents Juan and Celina Baez Sotomayor moved to New York for childcare. The family income of Sotomayor is very discreet, her mother is a nurse of the Methadone Clinic, her father is a tool and a dead. After watching Perry Mason's television program, Sotomayor first forced the justice system. When the prosecutor on the plan said that he was willing to fail when the defendant was innocent, Sotomayor later told the New York Times "She made a big leap. The decision of the case, this is what I want to do is."