Judge Sonia Sotomayor First Hispanic Nominated For Supreme Court (Photos)

Judge Sonia Sotomayor has been nominated by the president Barack Obama for the Supreme Court. Sotomayor will be the first Hispanic justice in the U.S. Supreme Court, and replacing Justice David Souter.

Judge Sotomayor will be replacing Justice David Souter, who is retiring after 19 years on the high court service.

Obama announced the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday at the White House. Sotomayor, 54, will be the first Hispanic judge to serve on the nine-member high court.

Daily Kos’ Chuck Todd said Obama was completely blown away by Sotomayor when he met with her on Thursday for her interview. Obama said that after he met her he felt that she would have been one of his friends he would have hung out with in Chicago. They were “sympatico”.

Sonia Sotomayor was born in The Bronx, New York, and is Puerto Rican. She grew up in a housing project in the South Bronx, near Yankee Stadium. Sotomayor obtained her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1979, and was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. She then served as an Assistant District Attorney under New York County District Attorney Robert Morgenthau.

Prior to being President Obama’s nominee, Judge Sotomayor had been regarded as a potential Supreme Court nominee by several Presidents, both Republican and Democratic.

Sotomayor says she never imagined, as a child from New York’s South Bronx, that she would have the opportunities and experiences she’s been given. She said she hopes to be seen as an “ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities.”

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