Current Members. John G. Roberts, Jr. He received an A. He served as a law clerk for Judge Henry J. Department of Justice from — From — and —, he practiced law in Washington, D.
President George W. He attended Conception Seminary from and received an A. He was admitted to law practice in Missouri in , and served as an Assistant Attorney General of Missouri, ; an attorney with the Monsanto Company, ; and Legislative Assistant to Senator John Danforth, Department of Education, and as Chairman of the U. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Stephen G. Senate Judiciary Committee, —, and as Chief Counsel of the committee, — Samuel A. Alito, Jr. He served as a law clerk for Leonard I.
He was Assistant U. Department of Justice, —, and U. Attorney, District of New Jersey, — Bush nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat January 31, She earned a B. In , she earned a J. In , President George H.
Congress confirmed her by a vote of 68 — She became the first Hispanic justice. Board of Education United States , upholding provisions of the Bankruptcy Abuse and Consumer Protection Act from free-speech challenges. Florida She explained that in the appropriate case the Court needed to clarify the level of intent required to convict someone under a true threat statute. David L. Hudson, Jr. This article was originally published in Antonia Felix. New York: Berkeley Publishing Group, James Conrad Lester.
Hudson, David L. All of Sotomayor's hard work paid off when she graduated summa cum laude from Princeton in She was also awarded the Pyne Prize, which is the highest academic award given to Princeton undergraduates. She received her J. Sotomayor was responsible for prosecuting robbery, assault, murder, police brutality and child pornography cases.
She moved from associate to partner at the firm in Sotomayor's pro bono work at these agencies caught the attention of Senators Ted Kennedy and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who were partially responsible for her appointment as U. President George H. Bush nominated her for the position in , which was confirmed unanimously by the Senate on August 11, When she joined the court, she was its youngest judge.
On her 43rd birthday, June 25, , she was nominated for the U. She was confirmed by the Senate that October. In addition to her work in the Court of Appeals, Sotomayor also began teaching law as an adjunct professor at New York University in and at Columbia Law School in She has also received honorary law degrees from Herbert H. And she served on the Board of Trustees at Princeton. The nomination was confirmed by the U.
In June , Sotomayor was among the majority in two landmark Supreme Court rulings: On June 25, she was one of the six justices to uphold a critical component of the Affordable Care Act—often referred to as Obamacare—in King v.
The decision allows the federal government to continue providing subsidies to Americans who purchase health care through "exchanges," regardless of whether they are state or federally operated.
Sotomayor is credited as a key force in the ruling, having presented cautionary arguments against the potential dismantling of the law. On June 26, the Supreme Court handed down its second historic decision in as many days, with a 5—4 majority ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges that made same sex marriage legal in all 50 states. In June , Sotomayor made headlines when she wrote a scathing dissent for Utah v. Edward Joseph Strieff, Jr.
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