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This book goes into a brief history of sonia s history including her early schooling, diabetes, getting into princeton and yale law school, her extra curricular activities during school, and then her extraordinary career leading up to the supreme court. To promote it, the 58yearold justice had arranged several media interviews and book signings. Please read all of the below information if you would like to attend the event or book signing. Sonia sotomayor, supreme court justice, will be signing copies of turning pages in va this month. How justice sotomayor is busting the supreme courts steady rhythms longtime supreme court reporter joan biskupics new book on justice sonia sotomayor reflects on the nations first latina justice. Supreme court justice sonia sotomayor and awardwinning artist rafael. Justice sotomayor speaks about her childrens book at the ajc decatur book festival. So much of what goes on in our national life and public discourse in recent years has been surly or cynical. Sonia sotomayors amazing rise intelligent, gregarious and at times disarmingly personal, justice sonia sotomayors memoir, my. Sonia sotomayor loves travel, adventure, variety and meeting new people, and she longs to experience all of life. Justice sonia sotomayor wrote a childrens book that reflects on the most of the important.
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Sotomayor was born in the bronx, new york city, to puerto ricanborn parents. Sonia maria sotomayor june 25, 1954 is an associate justice of the supreme court of the united states, serving since august 2009. Aug 08, 2009 sonia sotomayor the fearless federal trial court judge who saved major league baseball from a ruinous 1995 strike entered the record book as the first hispanic and the third woman to serve on the high court. Justice sonia sotomayor highlights the wonders of reading in new memoir for kids. Sonia sotomayor, associate justice of the supreme court of the united states from 2009. Notable opinions of judge sonia sotomayor ballotpedia. Sonia maria sotomayor is an associate justice of the supreme court of the united states, serving since august 2009. Oct 07, 2014 how justice sotomayor is busting the supreme courts steady rhythms longtime supreme court reporter joan biskupics new book on justice sonia sotomayor reflects on the nations first latina justice. In celebration of hispanic heritage month, biography profiles sonia sotomayor, the first hispanic and third woman. She has the distinction of being its first justice of hispanic heritage, the first latina, its third female justice, and its twelfth.
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