Sonia Sotomayor

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sonia Sotomayor
Occupation	Supreme Court Justice
Date Of Birth	Jun 25, 1954(1954-06-25)
Age	70
Birthplace	Bronx
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Gemini

Sonia Sotomayor Biography

Sonia Sotomayor is one of the most popular and richest Supreme Court Justice who was born on June 25, 1954 in Bronx, New York, United States. First Latina on the U.S. Supreme Court. Her birthplace was in Bronx.

Her name was Supreme Court’s 111th justice and She was the Supreme Court’s 111th justice, while Thurgood Marshall was its 96th justice and its first African-American justice. was the 9th justice and was the court’s first African-American justice.

Academically, Sotomayor stumbled her first year at Princeton, but later received almost all A’s in her final two years of college. Sotomayor wrote her senior thesis at Princeton on Luis Muñoz Marín, the first democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico, and on the territory’s struggles for economic and political self-determination. The 178-page work, “La Historia Ciclica de Puerto Rico: The Impact of the Life of Luis Muñoz Marin on the Political and Economic History of Puerto Rico, 1930–1975”, won honorable mention for the Latin American Studies Thesis Prize. As a senior, Sotomayor won the Pyne Prize, the top award for undergraduates, which reflected both strong grades and extracurricular activities. In 1976, she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cum laude with an A.B. in history. She was influenced by the then-fashionable critical race theory, which would be reflected in her later speeches and writings.

Sonia Maria Sotomayor (Spanish: [ˈsonja sotomaˈʝoɾ] ; born June 25, 1954) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was appointed by President Barack Obama in May 2009 and confirmed in August of the same year. She was the first Hispanic and Latina Justice.

The younger brother of Juan Sotomayor was a medical doctor and professor at the University of California, San Diego.

Sonia Sotomayor Net Worth

Sonia Sotomayor is one of the richest Supreme Court Justice from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sonia Sotomayor 's net worth $6 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She wanted to be a detective in the style of her fictional Nancy Drew. Nancy Drew.

The judge was third woman Supreme Court justice.

Sotomayor was born in the New York City borough of The Bronx. Her father was Juan Sotomayor (born c. 1921), from the area of Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and her mother was Celina Báez (born 1927), an orphan from the neighborhood of Santa Rosa in Lajas, a rural area on Puerto Rico’s southwest coast.

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Who is Sonia Sotomayor Dating?

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As an activist, Sotomayor focused on faculty hiring and curriculum, since Princeton did not have a single full-time Latino professor nor any class on Latin American studies. A meeting with university president William G. Bowen in her sophomore year saw no results, leading to Sotomayor’s saying in a New York Times story at the time that “Princeton is following a policy of benign neutrality and is not making substantive efforts to change.” So, Acción Puertorriqueña filed a formal letter of complaint in April 1974 with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, saying the school discriminated in its hiring and admission practices. Sotomayor wrote opinion pieces for the Daily Princetonian with the same theme. The university began to hire Latino faculty, and Sotomayor established an ongoing dialogue with Bowen. Sotomayor also successfully persuaded historian Peter Winn to create a seminar on Puerto Rican history and politics. Sotomayor joined the governance board of Princeton’s Third World Center and served on the university’s student–faculty Discipline Committee, which issued rulings on student infractions. She also ran an after-school program for local children and volunteered as an interpreter for Latino patients at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital.

Facts & Trivia

Sonia Ranked on the list of most popular Supreme Court Justice. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Sonia Sotomayor celebrates birthday on June 25 of every year.

On August 14, 1976, just after graduating from Princeton, Sotomayor married Kevin Edward Noonan, whom she had dated since high school, in a small chapel at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. She used the married name Sonia Sotomayor de Noonan. He became a biologist and a patent lawyer.

What ethnicity is Sonia Sotomayor?

Sotomayor was born in The Bronx, New York City, to Puerto Rican-born parents. Her father died when she was nine, and she was subsequently raised by her mother.

What did Sonia Sotomayor do to become famous?

Sonia Sotomayor – the fearless federal trial court judge who saved Major League Baseball from a ruinous 1995 strike – entered the record book as the first Hispanic and the third woman to serve on the High Court.

Is Sonia Sotomayor the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice?

On August 8, 2009, Sonia Sotomayor is sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Born in the Bronx to Puerto Rican parents, Sotomayor is the first Hispanic justice to serve on the nation’s highest court.

Is Sotomayor a good justice?

Judge Sotomayor is generally considered to be a competent jurist with a good legal sense who writes good opinions , but is criticized by some of the lawyers who argue before her as a “bully,” “nasty” and a “terror.”

Is Kevin Noonan married?

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