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Sonia Sotomayor

Powerful Women of the Decade 2000 - 2009

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Third female and first Hispanic justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, August 2009
Sonia Sotomayor September 2009

Sonia Sotomayor at formal investiture as justice of the US Supreme Court, September 8, 2009

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