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In the week since Judge Sonia Sotomayor was nominated by President Obama to replace Justice David Souter on the United States Supreme Court, we’ve heard a lot of praises and critiques - here’s a bit more information for you to make the call:

Born as the eldest of two children in the South Bronx area of New York City, New York, on June 25, 1954. Her parents, Sonia and Celina (Baez) Sotomayor, were Puerto Rican immigrants who raised the family on a very modest income. Her mother was a nurse at a methadone clinic and her father was a tool-and-die worker who died when Sotomayor was only nine years old.

Sotomayor’s first leanings toward the justice system began after watching an episode of the television show Perry Mason. After a prosecutor on the program said he did not mind losing when a defendant turned out to be innocent. "I made the quantum leap: If that was the prosecutor’s job, then the guy who made the decision to dismiss the case was the judge," Sotomayor reflected later. "That was what I was going to be." Read more at biography.com.

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