Title: Sonia Sotomayor
Subtitle: first Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court justice
Description: When President Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court of the United States, the country celebrated. Not only would the Supreme Court welcome its third woman justice but also its first Hispanic member. Many Americans saw the appointment of the first Hispanic justice as an important step in the civil rights movement.
Subjects: Judges, Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Hispanic American judges, Biography, Hispanic Americans, Women, Hispanic americans, biography, Judges, biography
Places: United States
People: Sonia Sotomayor (1954-)