LatinX Stories
Flashback: Judge Sonia Sotomayor Nominated to the Supreme Court
Flashback Monday: “2nd Court of Appeals judge, Sonia Sotomayor, accepts her Supreme Court nomination by thanking her family, reflecting on her modest upbringing in The Bronx, New York, and highlighting her previous positions as an assistant district attorney and a federal district court trial judge as experiences that have readied her for the position of Supreme Court Judge.”
Nominated by President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009, Sonia Sotomayor became the first Latina Supreme Court Justice in U.S. history. Read more at https://www.biography.com/people/sonia-sotomayor-453906
