President Barack Obama today announced that he is nominating federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. If approved by the Democrat-controlled Senate, she will become the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. Sotomayor, 54, would succeed retiring Justice David Souter and would join Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the second woman on the current court.
"Over a distinguished career that spans three decades, Judge Sotomayor has worked at almost every level of our judicial system, providing her with a depth of experience and a breadth of perspective that will be invaluable as a Supreme Court justice," Obama said. "It's a measure of her qualities and her qualifications that Judge Sotomayor was nominated to the U.S. District Court by a Republican President, George H.W. Bush, and promoted to the Federal Court of Appeals by a Democrat, Bill Clinton. Walking in the door she would bring more experience on the bench, and more varied experience on the bench, than anyone currently serving on the United States Supreme Court had when they were appointed."
Obama nominates first Hispanic to Supreme Court
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