President Obama announced Tuesday morning the nomination of federal court judge Sonia Sotomayor, who grew up in a Bronx housing project, as the first Hispanic to serve on the Supreme Court.
Sotomayor, 54, will succeed retiring Associate Justice David Souter if she is confirmed by the Senate.
The first President Bush, a Republican, appointed Sotomayor to Manhattan Federal Court in 1992. President Clinton, a Democrat, elevated her to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in 1998.
Sotomayor's nomination process could be rocky. Within days of Souter announcing his retirement, a video surfaced in which Sotomayor was caught saying the courts are the place where "policy is made" - an activist viewpoint sure to rankle conservatives.
She quickly added, "And I know this is on tape and I should never say that, because we don't make law. I know."
In an interview with the Daily News in 1998, Sotomayor, a diehard Yankees fan, said she long believed she would rise to the top of her profession.
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