Sonia Sotomayor is an American judge who became the first Latina justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed in 2009. She grew up in a housing project in the Bronx and went on to graduate at the top of her class from Princeton University before earning her law degree at Yale, where she also served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal. She often speaks about how hard work and education helped her overcome a difficult childhood, including managing diabetes from a young age. She is known for writing clearly about the real-life impact of the Court's decisions on ordinary people.