Spanish judge sonia sotomayor

Sonia Sonia Sotomayor, female, was born in Bronx, new york on June 25th, 1954. Her parents came from Puerto Rico and grew up in a low-rent apartment in Bronxdale. She graduated summa cum laude from Princeton in 1976 and Yale Law School in 1979. From 1979 to 1984. Sotomayor served as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan, and then as Pavia &; Assistant partner and partner of Harcourt Law Firm until he was appointed as a judge of Manhattan Federal District Court in 1992. In 1998, she was promoted to a judge of the United States Court of Appeals in Manhattan.

She has 3 years' experience in the legal profession, involving almost all levels of judicial system. On May 26th, 29, US President Barack Obama nominated sonia sotomayor, a Latino federal female judge, as a judge of the US Supreme Court to replace Justice David Souter who will retire in June 29. If this nomination is approved by the Senate, she will become the first Hispanic female justice in American history.

sonia sotomayor is 54 years old (in 29). Her Puerto Rican parents immigrated to the United States and settled in new york before her birth. Her father died when she was young, and her mother worked many jobs to send her two children to school.

Sotomayor received a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a doctorate in law from Yale Law School. In 1991, she was nominated by Republican President George H.W. Bush to enter the U.S. District Court in the south of new york, and was later nominated by Democratic President Clinton as a judge of the U.S. Federal Circuit Court for the Second District in new york. She later became a federal district court judge and a federal appeals court judge.

American analysts believe that apart from her distinguished career in the legal field, sonia sotomayor's characteristics as a woman, a minority and a political centrist are also important reasons for her final nomination.

At present, among the nine justices of the Supreme Court, there are seven white men, one white woman and one black man. On May 4th, 29, Alan spector, the newest Democratic member of the US Senate and a former Republican, put forward a proposal urging President Obama to increase the diversity of Supreme Court judges. So before the nomination was announced, most observers thought that Obama's nomination must be a woman. Sonia sotomayor's Latino identity has added "diversity" points to her besides women.