Sonia Sotomayor (born June 25, 1954) is a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Sotomayor has been reported to be U.S. President Barack Obama‘s nominee to replace retiring Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Sotomayor was born in The Bronx, New York to Puerto Rican parents. She grew up in a housing project in the South Bronx, just a short walk from the old Yankee Stadium.^[2][3] She was diagnosed with diabetes at age 8. Her father, a tool-and-die worker with a third-grade education, died the following year.Her mother, a nurse, raised Sotomayor and her younger brother, who is now a doctor, on a modest salary. In 1976 Sotomayor married while still a student at Princeton University, and divorced in 1983.

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