The Annotated Bobblehead Justice Sonia Sotomayor

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Sonia Sotomayor, 2009-

Sonia Sotomayor was born in the Bronx, New York City, to Puerto Rican-born parents in 1954. She graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1976 and earned a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1979, where she served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal. After serving as Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office and litigating international commercial matters at Pavia & Harcourt in New York City, Sotomayor was nominated by President George H.W. Bush to the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York in 1991. She served in that role from 1992-1998, and then, following nomination by President Bill Clinton, served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for the next decade. In 2009, she was nominated by President Barack Obama as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Sotomayor is the first Hispanic justice and the third woman to be a Supreme Court justice.