America’s first Latina Supreme Court justice was born in the Bronx to two Puerto Rican immigrant parents.
Her father Juan, was a manual laborer, and her mother Celina, a nurse.
Sotomayor experienced grief very early in life.
At ten, she watched an episode ofPerry Mason, and the rest was history.
Her interest in criminal justice is shared by Trump nominee Neil Gorsuch.
“Every part of this book is what’s happened to my life.
The pictures in this book are the pictures of my life.
And they can be the pictures of your life, by the way.
Because everything I did, I did through reading and through education,” she says.
They have both remained friends (viaHuffPost).
