Sotomayor breaks records
Earlier this month, Judge Sonia Sotomayor LAW ’79 took her seat as a Supreme Court justice, replacing retiring Justice David Souter.
It had been a nomination of records. Sotomayor, 54, is the first Hispanic justice on the High Court, only the third woman, and the ninth to have attended Yale Law School. Her confirmation, though, was not without controversy.
As an appellate judge on the New York–based United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit since 1998, she summarily rejected hearing the controversial reverse discrimination lawsuit Ricci v. Destefano. Her...
