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...fiercely devoted student, Sotomayor attended Catholic schools and then Princeton University on a scholarship, graduating summa cum laude. She later attended Yale Law School and worked for the Manhattan district attorney's office as well as a prestigious corporate firm before donning judges' robes. She was nominated to New York's U.S. District Court by President George H.W. Bush, later rising to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sonia Sotomayor: Obama's Supreme Court Nominee | 5/27/2009 | See Source »

...Nominated by President George H.W. Bush in 1992 to become the youngest judge in the Southern District of New York. Nominated by President Bill Clinton to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sonia Sotomayor: Obama's Supreme Court Nominee | 5/27/2009 | See Source »

...addition to working as a judge, taught law at New York and Columbia universities. Also active in numerous pro bono causes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sonia Sotomayor: Obama's Supreme Court Nominee | 5/27/2009 | See Source »

...just very smart, she's very likable ... She's very down-to-earth." - Cesar Perales, president of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund. (New York Daily News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sonia Sotomayor: Obama's Supreme Court Nominee | 5/27/2009 | See Source »

...have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up." (New York Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sonia Sotomayor: Obama's Supreme Court Nominee | 5/27/2009 | See Source »

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