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Sonia Sotomayor: 1st Hispanic High Court Justice

Native New Yorker Sonia Sotomayor became the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice on Aug. 6, 2009 when the Senate voted in favor of her confirmation. Sotomayor, lauded as a mainstream moderate by Democrats, is also the third woman to sit on the High Court bench.



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Judge Sonia Sotomayor (left), the first Hispanic justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, is sworn in with the Judicial Oath in the East Conference room of the Supreme Court on August 8, 2009.

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