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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Looking the Part
In 1998, Sotomayor was promoted, by President Bill Clinton, from her seat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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