Who is sonia sotomayor?

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|Who is Sonia Sotomayor? |
|Story Highlights |
|Sotomayor: "I am an ordinary person ... blessed with extraordinary opportunities"|
|Sonia Sotomayor, 54, born in Bronx to parents from Puerto Rico |
|Supreme Court nominee grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx |
|Named district judge by George H.W. Bush; elevated to current seat by Bill Clinton|
|(CNN) -- Judge Sonia Sotomayor knew she wanted to go into law from an early age. |
|As a child, she aspired to be like Nancy Drew, the detective in the popular children's mystery series. But at the age of 8, she |
|was diagnosed with diabetes and told she might need to rethink her dreams. ||Her struggle with diabetes was just one of many adversities she faced while growing up. |
|Sotomayor's parents came to New York from Puerto Rico during World War II. Her father worked in a factory and didn't speak |
|English. ||She was born in the Bronx and grew up in a public housing project, not far from the stadium of her favorite team -- the New York|
|Yankees. Her father died when she was 9, leaving her mother to raise her and her younger brother on her own |
|Her mother, whom Sotomayor describes as her biggest inspiration, worked six days a week to care for her and her younger brother,|
|andinstilled in them the value of an education. [pic]Background on Sotomayor » |
|Sotomayor later graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and went on to attend Yale law school, where she was editor |
|of the Yale Law Journal. |
|In her...