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La primera latina y tan slo la tercera mujer designada a la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos, Sonia Sotomayor se ha convertido en un icono americano contemporneo. Ahora, con un candor e intimidad nunca antes asumidos por un juez en activo, Sonia nos narra el viaje de su vida - desde los proyectos del Bronx hasta la corte federal - en una inspiradora celebracin de su extraordinaria determinacin y del poder de creer en uno mismo. Esta es la historia de una niez precaria, con un padre alcohlico que morira cuando ella tena nueve aos y una madre devota pero sobrecargada, y del refugio que una nia tom de la confusin del hogar con su apasionada y enrgica abuela. Pero no fue hasta que le diagnosticaron diabetes juvenil que la precoz Sonia reconoci que, en ltima instancia, dependa de s misma.
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Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice, was born in Bronx, New York, on June 25, 1954. She earned a B.A. in 1976 from Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude and receiving the university's highest academic honor. In 1979, she earned a J.D. from Yale Law School where she served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal. She thereafter served as Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office from 1979-1984. She then litigated international commercial matters in New York City at Pavia & Harcourt, where she was an associate and then partner from 1984-1992. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush nominated her to the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, and she served in that role from 1992-1998. She then served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1998-2009. President Barack Obama nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on May 26, 2009, and she assumed this role August 8, 2009.
