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Sotomayor’s book a candid account of a challenging life Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s new book, “My Beloved World ,” is an extremely personal memoir of how her lifelong disease and her sense of “existential independence” fueled her life and career.
Sept. 29, 2009
Part of the Supreme Court's group portrait to reflect their newest addition, Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Front row, left, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas. Rear, Stephen G. Breyer and Sotomayor.
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From her book, "My Beloved World," Sotomayor describes "trying very hard at age 4 to match Mami's glamour, both of us dressed in new hats for Easter."
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COURTESY OF SONIA SOTOMAYOR
From "My Beloved World" by Sonia Sotomayor. From left: Sonia Sotomayor, her father, Juan ("Papi"), her brother Juan (Junior) and her mother, Celina, beside the Christmas tree decorated by her father.
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COURTESY OF SONIA SOTOMAYOR
From "My Beloved World" by Sonia Sotomayor. With Kevin Noonan in the Rocky Mountains on our road trip out West, second summer at Yale. The couple met in high school and married after she graduated from from Princeton.
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COURTESY OF SONIA SOTOMAYOR
The cover of " My Beloved World." Sotomayor says she hates being thought of as a workaholic. “My definition of a workaholic is someone who gets enjoyment only from work,” she said in an interview with The Washington Post. “That’s not true for me. ... I love life, and I love people and I love experiences.”
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Sotomayor with her mother and father. Her Puerto Rican-born parents spoke only Spanish. Her father, Juan, died when she was young, Her mother, Celina, a nurse, moonlighted at a methodone clinic.
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Sotomayor with her sister Miriam and cousins. Sotomayor and her siblings were raised by a single mother in the Bronx.
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Sotomayor as a young girl, age 6 or 7. Her diabetes was diagnosed when she was 7. At that age, she prepared and administered her daily shots of insulin.
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Sotomayor in a cap and gown for her eighth-grade graduation.
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This 1976 photograph shows Princeton University senior Sotomayor in the Nassau Herald Yearbook. She graduated summa cum laude from Princeton before attending Yale's law school.
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Sotomayor with her niece Kylie Sotomayor.
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Sotomayor with mother, Celina Sotomayor.
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April 2003
thSotomayor receives the official handshake welcoming her into the American Philosophical Society from president Frank H. T. Rhodes in Philadelphia.
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Sotomayor visits students at her alma mater, Cardinal Spellman High School in New York. She attended Princeton after high school and received disappointing grades her freshman year. “I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I’d feared,” she writes in her book.
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This undated photo provided by the White House shows Sotomayor with her nephews Conner and Corey Sotomayor at Yankee Stadium in New York.
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Sotomayor poses by her office window in New York overlooking the old Federal Courthouse on Foley Square in October 1998. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush nominated Sotomayor to be a judge on the U.S. District Court for Manhattan's Southern District.
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Nov. 6, 1998
Peter White helps Sotomayor, a newly inducted judge nominated by Ppresident Bill Clinton, with her robe shortly after being sworn in as a justice of the U.S. Court of Appeals at the U.S. Courthouse in New York.
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Sotomayor delivers the commencement address at Pace University in May 2003 and receives an honorary degree. President Obama met Sotomayor for the first time on May 21, 2009, five days ahead of announcing his decision to nominate her to the Supreme Court.
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President Obama stands with Judge Sonia Sotomayor in the East Room of the White House as he announces her as his Supreme Court nominee, May 16, 2009. "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," he said.
Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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Sotomayor answers questions during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. In her book and during an interview, Sotomayor acknowledged occasionally battling her own sense that she is undeserving. "I think it’s hard to experience what I have, not the least of which the attacks I experienced during the nomination process to the Supreme Court, without some of it seeping in. And you have to, yourself, come to grips with that. I’m different, but so are all of us."
Melina Mara
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THE WASHINGTON POST
Sonia Sotomayor, left, takes the oath from Chief Justice John G. Roberts, right, to become the Supreme Court's first Hispanic justice and only the third woman in the court's 220-year history. She is joined by her brother, Juan Luis Sotomayor, and her mother, Celina Sotomayor, holding the Bible.
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Sotomayor and her family in front of the Supreme Court. Left, stepfather Omar Lopez, her mother, Celina, Sotomayor, her sister-in-law Tracey, and her brother Juan.
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