Sonia Sotomayor
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Sonia Sotomayor is the 99th Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, nominated by President Obama in 2009.
She graduated from Yale Law School in 1979 and Princeton University in 1976.
Sotomayor's career includes roles as editor of the Yale Law Review, Assistant District Attorney in New York, and partner at a law firm specializing in international commercial matters.
She was nominated to the U.S. District Court by President George H.W. Bush in 1991 and served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1998 to 2009 before her Supreme Court appointment.
