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Sonia Maria Sotomayor was born in the South Bronx area of New York City on June 25, 1954. She is the eldest of two children born to Juan and Celina Baez Sotomayor, who were of Puerto Rican...
Her father was Juan Sotomayor (c. 1921–1964), [7] from the area of Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico, [8] [9] [10] and her mother was Celina Báez (1927–2021), [11] an orphan [12] from Santa Rosa in Lajas, a rural area on Puerto Rico's southwest coast.
Quick Facts. Also Known As: Sonia Maria Sotomayor. Age: 69 Years, 69 Year Old Females. Family: Spouse/Ex-: Kevin Noonan (m. 1976–1983) father: Juan Sotomayor. mother: Celina Báez. siblings: Juan Sotomayor. Born Country: United States. Hispanic Women Judges. Ancestry: Puerto Rican American. Personality: ESTJ. City: Bronx, New York.
Sonia Maria Sotomayor was born in the Bronx, New York on June 25, 1954, to father, Juan Sotomayor and mother, Celina Baez. Both of her parents were born in Puerto Rico, moved to the United States, met after World War II, and married after Celina served in the Women’s Army Corps.
Born to Puerto Rican parents in New York City, Sonia Sotomayor grew up in a housing project in the Bronx. At age eight, she was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, requiring daily insulin injections. Her father died the following year, leaving her mother to raise her and her brother alone.
She was the first Hispanic and the third woman to serve on the Supreme Court. The daughter of parents who moved to New York City from Puerto Rico, Sotomayor was raised in a housing project in the Bronx. After the death of her father, her mother worked long hours as a nurse to support the family.
May 26, 2009. WASHINGTON She was “a child with dreams,” as she once said, the little girl who learned at 8 that she had diabetes, who lost her father when she was 9, who devoured Nancy Drew books...
