¿Quién es Sonia Sotomayor? (Who is Sonia Sotomayor? Spanish Edition)

Expresiva, enrgica y divertida, Sonia Sotomayor ha logrado convertir cada lucha de su vida en un triunfo. Nacida en el Bronx de padres inmigrantes de Puerto Rico, Sonia descubri a los nueve aos que tena diabetes, una enfermedad grave ahora, pero an ms peligrosa hace cincuenta aos. Cmo afront la joven Sonia la devastadora noticia? Aprendi a administrarse sus inyecciones diarias de insulina y se empe en aprovechar al mximo su vida. Fue la popular serie de televisin de los aos sesenta Perry Mason la que hizo que Sonia quisiera convertirse en abogada. Y no solo abogada, sino tambin jueza! Su extraordinaria carrera se vio coronada en 2009 cuando el presidente Barack Obama la nombr miembro del Tribunal Supremo, siendo la tercera mujer en la historia del tribunal y la primera hispana. Las historias de la carrera de Sotomayor no son de orden jurdico: cierta vez se subi a una motocicleta para perseguir a los falsificadores y fue la jueza cuya decisin puso fin a la huelga de las Grandes Ligas de bisbol en 1995.

Outspoken, energetic, and fun, Sonia Sotomayor has managed to turn every struggle in life into a triumph. Born in the Bronx to immigrant parents from Puerto Rico, Sonia found out at age nine that she had diabetes, a serious illness now but an even more dangerous one fifty years ago. How did young Sonia handle the devastating news? She learned to give herself her daily insulin shots and became determined to make the most out of her life. It was the popular sixties TV show Perry Mason that made Sonia want to become a lawyer. Not only a lawyer but a judge! Her remarkable career was capped in 2009 when President Barack Obama nominated her to the Supreme Court, only the third woman in the court's history and the first Hispanic. Stories of Sotomayor's career are hardly dry legal stuffshe once hopped on a motorcycle to chase down counterfeiters and was the judge whose ruling ended the Major League baseball strike in 1995.