Sonia Maria Sotomayor is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009.

The Justice was born on June 25, 1954 (age 67 years), in Bronx, New York, in the United States of America is said to be an American by nationality.

Justice Sotomayor
Justice Sotomayor

She is known to have married his former spouse by the name of  Kevin Noonan in 1976 and then divorced amicably in 1983.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s Achievements

  • Sotomayor became the youngest judge in the Southern District and the first Hispanic federal judge in New York State.
  • She became the first Puerto Rican woman to serve as a judge in a U.S. federal court
  • She was one of seven women among the district’s 58 judges.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor Awards and Honours

Honorary law degrees from

  •  Lehman College (1999)
  • Princeton University (2001)
  •  Brooklyn Law School (2001)
  • Pace University School of Law
  • Hofstra University (2006)
  •  Northeastern University School of Law (2007)
  •  Howard University (2010)
  • St. Lawrence University (2010)
  •  Paris Nanterre University (2010)
  • New York University (2012)
  •  Yale University (2013)
  •  University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras (2014)

Justice Sonia Sotomayor Awards

Katharine Hepburn medal from Bryn Mawr College

inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame

Sonia M. Sotomayor Learning Academies Named after her