Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice,
was born in Bronx, New York, on June 25, 1954. She earned a B.A. in 1976 from
Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude and receiving the university’s
highest academic honor. In 1979, she earned a J.D. from Yale Law School where
she served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal. She served as Assistant
District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office from
1979–1984. She then litigated international commercial matters in New York City
at Pavia & Harcourt, where she served as an associate and then partner from
1984–1992. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush nominated her to the U.S.
District Court, Southern District of New York, and she served in that role from
1992–1998. She served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the
Second Circuit from 1998–2009. President Barack Obama nominated her as an
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on May 26, 2009, and she assumed this
role August 8, 2009.