Sonia Sotomayor

Sonia Sotomayor, completely Sonia Maria Sotomayor (born June 25, 1954, Bronx, New York, USA), United States Supreme Court deputy judge, since 2009. She is the first Hispanic woman and the third woman who served this. Supreme Court

Sotomayor, my daughter who moved from Puerto Rico to New York City grew up in the Bronx housing project. After her father died, her mother served as a nurse for a long time to feed her family. Sotomayor influenced her decision to become a lawyer, making her episode of the television crime program Perry Mason (1957-66) due to her child's observation. She graduated honor from Princeton University (A.A., 1976) and then entered Yale University law school where she was the editor of Yale University Journal. She graduated in 1979 and worked as an assistant district lawyer in New York County for five years before working in a private company at a company in New York who works for intellectual property rights and copyright cases.

President in 1992. George H. W. Bush appointed Sotomayor as the federal judge of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. As a federal judge, Sotomayor continued the strike in 1995 after she sued the major league baseball player seeking a change in the free agent system and wage arbitration rules. Sotomayor banned the team's boss and ended the strike for virtually 8 months.

When Pres. In 1997 Bill Clinton nominated Sotomayor as the judge of the US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, but Republican Senators postponed more than a year in fear of possibly leading to the appointment of the Supreme Court. After she was appointed to court in 1998, Sotomayor was known for her candidacy, direct speaking style and her well thought out decision. Some of her decisions caused controversy. In 2001, she ruled out a dyslexic woman, and she hopes to gain more adaptation under the American Persons with Disabilities Act to take the attorney exam. In 2003, a group of white firefighters from Matteo DeStefano of New Haven, Connecticut sued the city for giving up this test and in fact prevented all African-American firefighters promotion. Sotomayor and the other two judges accepted lower court decisions against white firefighters in 2008 without further comment, but in June 2009 the Supreme Court reversed that decision.

May 2009 Press release Barack Obama nominated Mr. Sotomayor as the Supreme Court and supplemented the vacant seat left by Judge David Suter appearing. Sotomayor first criticized the policy at the Court of Appeals (not in Congress) and in another speech Latin judges could judge more than Caucasian. Her diabetes also raised doubts about the fact that she lives long in this field. The Senate Judiciary Committee's confirmation hearing by Sotomayor was made smoothly in July 2009 and approved by the Senate the following month (68-31).

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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.