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Sonia Sotomayor, YLS '79, Confirmed to Supreme Court of the United States E-mail
  
Jeff K. Lee, Tuesday, 11 August 2009

Sonia Maria Sotomayor (Editor, Vol. 88, 1979) was confirmed as the 111th Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States with a Senate vote on August 6, 2009.  She becomes the first Hispanic, and third woman, to ever sit on the high court and joins fellow Journal alumnus Samuel Alito (Editor, Vol. 83-84, 1975) and fellow Yale Law School alumnus Clarence Thomas (1974).

Justice Sotomayor was sworn into office on August 8, 2009. In addition to her service to the Journal during her time at Yale, she was a managing editor of the Yale Studies in World Public Order. She published a student Note in Volume 88 of the Journal, Statehood and the Equal Footing Doctrine: The Case for Puerto Rican Seabed Rights, available here.
 

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