Original sentence: (Some attention has been given to Justice Benjamin Cardozo – a Sephardic Jew believed to be of distant Portuguese descent – as the first Hispanic on the court when appointed in 1932, but his roots were uncertain, the term "Hispanic" was not in use as an ethnic identifier at the time, and the Portuguese are generally excluded from its meaning.)  Sotomayor would also be the third woman to serve on the Court, following Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Edited sentence: However some attention has been given to Justice Benjamin Cardozo, a Sephardic Jew believed to be of distant Portuguese descent – as the first Hispanic on the court when appointed in 1932, but his roots were uncertain, the term "Hispanic" was not in use as an ethnic identifier at the time, and the Portuguese are generally excluded from its meaning.Sotomayor would also be the third woman to serve on the Court, following Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg