Supreme Court Justice Sonia Maria Sotomayor NPG
- susan miller-havens
- Jan 16, 2023
- 1 min read
Updated: Sep 8, 2023

Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Maria Sotomayor is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009, and has served since August 8, 2009. She is the third woman, first woman of color, the first Hispanic, and first Latina to serve on the Supreme Court.
She is pictured here along with El Orgullo y La Determinacion (Pedro Martinez portrait) in the National Portrait Gallery's invitation to children who would like to learn about art.




















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