Sonia Sotomayor won confirmation of her nomination to sit on the nation’s highest court after the United States Senate approved her nomination on August 6, 2009 by a vote of 68–31. Judge Sotomayor will be the Supreme Court’s 111th justice, its third female Justice (after Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg) and the first Latina Justice. Technically, she is not the first Hispanic as former Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, who was a Sephardic Jew of Portuguese descent, was the first Hispanic on the Supreme Court.
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