Justice Sonia Sotomayor is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was born and raised in the Bronx, New York, and is the first Latina to serve on the Supreme Court. She was nominated by President Barack Obama in 2009 and confirmed by the Senate in August of that year. Sotomayor has been a strong advocate for justice and equality throughout her career, and her appointment to the Supreme Court has been seen as a major milestone in the history of the court.