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Sotomayor was appointed by Mayor Ed Koch in 1988 as one of the founding members of the New York City Campaign Finance Board, where she served for four years. [ 8 ] [ 80 ] There she took a vigorous role [ 78 ] in the board's implementation of a voluntary scheme wherein local candidates received public matching funds in exchange for limits on ...
Sotomayor's nomination was submitted to the United States Senate on June 1, 2009, when the 111th Congress reconvened after its Memorial Day recess. Sotomayor was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 6, 2009 by a 68–31 vote, and was sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts on August 8, 2009, becoming the first Hispanic to serve on the Supreme ...
The first was Judge Sonia Sotomayor [1] to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice David H. Souter. [2] Sotomayor was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 6, 2009, by a vote of 68–31. The second appointment was that of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace the retired John Paul Stevens
The two most recently appointed justices were women, and one a woman of color. Ketanji Brown Jackson, previously a federal appeals court judge, in 2022 became the first Black woman on the high court.
Sonia Sotomayor was the first female justice to be appointed as an unmarried woman, having divorced in 1983, long before her nomination in 2009. [ 83 ] [ 85 ] Of the six women who have been appointed to the Court, O'Connor and Ginsburg were the only two military spouses.
PHOTO: Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of The Supreme Court of the United States, at Zarzuela Palace on March 04, 2024 in Madrid. (Pablo Cuadra/Getty Images, FILE)
Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor at Zarzuela Palace in Madrid, Spain, on March 4, 2024 (Pablo Cuadra/Getty Images)
Appointed by Prior position [b] 1 John Rutledge: 1st (new seat) September 26, 1789 (Acclamation) February 15, 1790 – March 4, 1791 (Resigned) [c] George Washington: 31st governor of South Carolina (1779–1782) 2 William Cushing [d] 2nd (new seat) September 26, 1789 (Acclamation) February 2, 1790 – September 13, 1810 (Died) Chief Justice of the