Historic President Makes Historic Appointment: First Latina Apointed to the Supreme Court!

Judge Sonia Sotomayer, a 54 year old judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, was born and raised in a housing project in the Bronx. She received a full scholarship to Princeton University in 1972, only 3 years after the school began accepting women. Upon graduation she entered Yale Law School.  In 1991, President George H. W. Bush appointed Sotomayor to the Southern District of New York.  In 1997, President Bill Clinton appointed her to her current post.  Among her controversial opinions was the preliminary injunction against MLB’s attempt to unilaterally end the baseball strike in 1994 through abrogation of the Collective Bargaining Agreement and her order allowing the Wall Street Journal to publish the suicide note of Vince Foster.  Nonetheless, she has been considered a moderate by the ABA.