Sonia Sotomayor

Born June 25, 1954 in NYC

• 1st Hispanic to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

• Raised in housing projects and lost her father before she was 10. 

• Inspired to pursue a career in law by the TV show Perry Mason, she graduated from Princeton and then Yale Law School.

“Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.”