We are reading "My Beloved World" by Sonia Sotomayor, a Justice of the US Supreme Court. It is an autobiography and we are only 20% into the book. Justice Sotomayor's parents were born in Puerto Rico. Much of what we have read so far focuses on her childhood and memories from then. She grew up in New York City.
I would like to be able to witness some magic by which the adults around the young girl of eight or nine were informed that they were dealing with a future US Supreme Court justice. The web site Biographies of Current Justices of the Supreme Court has this to say about Justice Sotomayor's life:
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 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 served as 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 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.
I don't know much about being a judge but it sounds like hard work, physically and emotionally, to me.
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Bill
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