Sotomayor Nominated to Replace Souter on U.S. Supreme Court
Washington — President Obama will nominate a federal appeals judge, Sonia Sotomayor, to the U.S. Supreme Court, to fill the spot of Justice David H. Souter, who has announced his retirement from the bench.
If confirmed by the Senate, Judge Sotomayor would become the nation’s first Hispanic justice.
She earned her undergraduate degree at Princeton University and her law degree at Yale University, and has served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York, since 1998.
Judge Sotomayor has also been involved in legal education, teaching as an adjunct professor at the New York University School of Law and as a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School. —Eric Kelderman
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