Justice Sonia Sotomayor was born on June 25, 1954, to parents Celina Baez and Juan Sotomayor. Sonia is of American nationality but a Latino from Bronx New York and is currently a renowned Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Her father was a dye worker and her mother was a telephone operator and practical nurse.

Sotomayor has a brother, Juan Sotomayor who is currently a physician and University professor in Syracuse, New York. Sonia attained basic education at Blessed Sacrament School in Soundville and went into the Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx. in 1976, she was given a full scholarship to study at Princeton University.

Sotomayor became the youngest judge in the Southern District and one of the seven women among the district’s 58 judges. She is also the first Puerto Rican woman to serve in a U.S Federal court.

President Barack Obama nominated Sonia in 2009 to the supreme court after the retirement of former Justice David Souter and she became the third woman to hold the position. She has been in the position since August 8, 2009.

Are Marianna Sotomayor and Sonia Sotomayor friends?

No, Marianna Sotomayor and Sonia Sotomayor are neither friends nor related. Marianna is a journalist for the Washinton Post and is only known for sharing the same surname as Justice Sonia Sotomayor. There has not been any form of relationship between the two women and it’s even possible they don’t know each other personally.