Photos: The life of Sonia Sotomayor
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Newly sworn-in U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor (L) is congratulated by Chief Justice John Roberts (R) after taking the Judicial Oath as her brother Juan Luis Sotomayor looks on in the East Conference Room in Washington on August 8, 2009. Sotomayor is the first Hispanic and the third woman to serve in the history of the 220-year-old Supreme Court. (Jim Young / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation -
Supreme Court justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor takes her seat as she arrives for the hearing on her nomination as a Supreme Court justice on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on July 13, 2009. Confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Aug. 6, she is the first Hispanic and the third woman ever to serve on the highest court in the land. (Michael Reynolds / EPA) Back to slideshow navigation -
Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor's mother, Celina Sotomayor (C), brother Juan Luis Sotomayor (R), and stepfather Omar Lopez (L) await the start of confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee July 13, 2009 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson / Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation -
Sotomayor meets with Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., on Capitol Hill on July 9. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev, wears a button on his lapel that said "Sonia" at a news conference with Hispanic leaders to promote Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on June 4. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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Sotomayor laughs after she was offered a pillow and a bag of ice by Sen. David Vitter, R-La., before their meeting on Capitol Hill on June 8. Sotomayor fractured her right ankle after stumbling on her way to be seated aboard her flight from New York to D.C. (Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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Obama described Sotomayor as "an inspiring woman" with both the intellect and compassion to interpret the Constitution during her introduction at the White House on May 26, 2009. (Saul Loeb / AFP - Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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Celina Sotomayor, mother of the Supreme Court nominee, cries during the announcement by President Obama on May 26. (The White House via Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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President Obama walks alongside Sotomayor and Vice President Joe Biden on May 26 prior to introducing her at the White House. (Saul Loeb / AFP - Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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Judge Sotomayor poses with her mother Celina Sotomayor in this undated photograph. When she was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Obama, the judge said of her mother, who was in attendance, "I am all I am because of her, and I am only half the woman she is." (The White House via Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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Sotomayor receives an honorary degree in May, 2007, from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston. (Craig Bailey / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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Sotomayor delivers the 2003 commencement address at Pace University in White Plains, N.Y. (AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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Sotomayor visits students at her alma mater, Cardinal Spellman High School, in the Bronx borough of New York. (The White House via Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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Sotomayor was appointed to the federal bench in 1992. This photo was taken Oct. 14, 1998, as she posed by her office window in New York overlooking the old Federal Courthouse on Foley Square. (Mark Lennihan / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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Sotomayor spends time with her niece Kylie Sotomayor in upstate New York. The judge's younger brother, Juan, is a doctor in Syracuse. (The White House via EPA) Back to slideshow navigation
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After graduating from Princeton in 1976, Sotomayor went to Yale Law School. With her law degree in hand in 1979, Sotomayor joined the Manhattan district attorney's office and the board of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund. She spent five years as a prosecutor before joining the New York law firm of Pavia & Harcourt, where she worked eight years before her appointment to the federal bench. (AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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Sotomayor, seen here in her yearbook page, graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1976. (The White House via EPA) Back to slideshow navigation
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Sotomayor attended Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx before heading to Princeton University. (The White House via Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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Sotomayor, here in a photo from around 1960, was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes and started taking insulin shots at the age of 8. (The White House via Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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Born June 25, 1954, Sotomayor was raised in the Bronx by Celina and Juan Luis Sotomayor, who moved to New York from Puerto Rico. Her father died when Sonia was 9 years old. (The White House via Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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