President Obama selects Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit as his first appointment to the High Court. If confirmed by the Senate, Judge Sotomayor will be the first Hispanic and woman of color Justice to serve on the Supreme Court.
Sonia Sotomayor has been an excellent Judge and she will make an outstanding Justice.
Her temperament and judicial character are above reproach and she will bring a high degree of intellectual curiosity, dignity, wisdom and equanimity with a keen acute mastery of the law.
The appointment of a Supreme Court Jurist is the most important appointment that President Obama will make in his Presidency.
It is quite apparent that President Obama made a smart political calculation in selecting the highly qualified Sotomayor and this choice has Hispanic voters written all over this appointment. With the potentiality of millions of Hispanic voters in the future, President Obama probably based a lot of his decision with that prospect in the equation.
Brief Biography On Judge Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor earned her BA. from Princeton University, Summa Cum Laude in 1976, where she won the Pyne Prize, the highest general award given to Princeton undergraduates.
Sotomayor obtained her JD from Yale Law Shool in 1979 where she was editor of the Law Journal. Sotomayor then served as an Assistant District Attorney under prominent New York District Attorney, Robert Morgenthau. In 1984, she entered private practice making partner at the commercial litigation firm of Pavia & Harcourt where she specialized in intellectual property litigation.
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