In May 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Sotomayor to the Supreme Court following the retirement of Justice David Souter. Her nomination was confirmed by the Senate in August 2009 by a vote of 68–31.

President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., appointed her to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2021 and then nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 2022.

1 day ago · Sotomayor was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama in 2009. Speaking earlier at the Louisville event, Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear said the Supreme Court holds “a sacred duty to rule without bias or favor to any person or party.”

9 hours ago · Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in New York on September 16, 2024. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP Photo What To Know. Speaking at an event in Louisville, Kentucky, on Wednesday, Sotomayor pointed ...

1 day ago · LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said her conservative colleagues are risking the court’s legitmacy with decisions affording President Donald Trump broad immunity and overturning longstanding precedents on other issues.. In her first public comments since Trump began his second term in the White House, Sotomayor told a Kentucky audience that the court has ...

Dec 4, 2024 · Sonia Sotomayor (born June 25, 1954, Bronx, New York, U.S.) associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 2009. She was the first Hispanic and the third woman to serve on the Supreme Court.

Mar 6, 2023 · Appointed by then-President Barack Obama following the retirement of Justice David Souter, Sotomayor is the first Latina Supreme Court justice in United States history, as well as the...

Aug 8, 2009 · Sonia Sotomayor – the fearless federal trial court judge who saved Major League Baseball from a ruinous 1995 strike – entered the record book as the first Hispanic and the third woman to serve on the High Court.

Aug 8, 2009 · Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined the U.S. Supreme Court on August 8, 2009, replacing Justice David Souter. Sotomayor made history for being the first Hispanic and the first woman of color to reach the Supreme Court.

Nov 10, 2024 · Despite urgent speculation in liberal legal circles and some talk among Democratic senators of potentially outright urging Justice Sonia Sotomayor to resign, sources close to the senior liberal justice have told ABC News that she is not expected to step down in the middle of the term because of the 2024 election results.