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Jan 22, 20 in nominating judge sotomayor to the highest court in the land, president obama pointed out that her life story was the embodiment of the american dream. Sonia sotomayor graduated summa cum laude from princeton in 1976 and from yale law school in 1979. Washington ap supreme court justice sonia sotomayor has said that the seed for what has become her latest childrens book was. Sonia sotomayor, associate justice, was born in bronx, new york, on june 25, 1954. Nov 04, 2017 the latest supreme court session kicked off last month, but justice sonia sotomayor has already lined up some projects away from the bench. Supreme court justice sonia sotomayors memoir my beloved country. She was appointed by president barack obama in may 2009 and confirmed that in august. Justice sotomayor writing book on kids with challenges. Sonia maria sotomayor june 25, 1954 is an associate justice of the supreme court of the united states, serving since august 2009.
She is the third woman to become an associate justice of the supreme court. An introduction to the men and women who decide the worlds cases waltham, mass 2007. My beloved world by sonia sotomayor reading guidebook. Its an intimate account of her life until she became a federal trial judge in 1992, at the age of 38. Jan 11, 20 at least half of my beloved world is a love letter to sotomayors south bronx childhood, toggling from past to present tense, full of cousins and poems and food, all of it held together by. An evening with sonia sotomayor porter square books. Justice sonia sotomayors new book, a memoir of her childhood and career as a lawyer that ends in 1992 as she ascends to the federal bench is told in a refreshing conversational style. Read online my beloved world pdf by sonia sotomayor for free. Sonia sotomayor was born on june 25th 1954, in the bronx, new york in a public housing project.
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