Sonia Sotomayor: The Making of a Judge

Judge Sonia Sotomayor is nominated to the Supreme Court A Hispanic woman judge is Obama's choice to become the next Associate Justice of the High Court
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After college, Judge Sotomayor went on to Yale Law School, where she was named editor of the Yale Law Journal. Upon graduation, she became an assistant district attorney in Manhattan, and spent several years at the commercial litigation firm Pavia & Harcourt.

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