![]() Sotomayor passed the entrance tests for and then attended Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx. Although underage, Sotomayor worked at a local retail store and a hospital. Despite the distance between the two, which became greater after her father's death and which was not fully reconciled until decades later, Sotomayor has credited her mother with being her "life inspiration". For grammar school, Sotomayor attended Blessed Sacrament School in Soundview, where she was valedictorian and had a near-perfect attendance record. That's no jest".Ĭelina Sotomayor put great stress on the value of education she bought the Encyclopædia Britannica for her children, something unusual in the housing projects. She reflected in 1998: "I was going to college and I was going to become an attorney, and I knew that when I was ten. Sotomayor has said that she was first inspired by the strong-willed Nancy Drew book character, and then after her diabetes diagnosis led doctors to suggest a different career from detective, she was inspired to go into a legal career and become a judge by watching the Perry Mason television series. After this, she became fluent in English. Her father died of heart problems at age 42, when she was nine years old. Sonia was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age seven and began taking daily insulin injections. Sonia grew up with an alcoholic father and a mother who was emotionally distant she felt closest to her grandmother, who she later said gave her a source of "protection and purpose". Her relatively close proximity to Yankee Stadium led her to becoming a lifelong fan of the New York Yankees. Her extended family got together frequently and she regularly visited Puerto Rico during summers. The family lived in a South Bronx tenement before moving in 1957 to the well-maintained, racially and ethnically mixed, working-class Bronxdale Houses housing project. Sotomayor was raised a Catholic and grew up in Puerto Rican communities in the South Bronx and East Bronx she self-identifies as a " Nuyorican". 1957), later became a physician and university professor in the Syracuse, New York, area Sonia's younger brother, Juan Sotomayor (born c. Juan Sotomayor had a third-grade education, did not speak English, and worked as a tool and die worker Celina Baez worked as a telephone operator and then a practical nurse. ![]() The two left Puerto Rico separately, met, and married during World War II after Celina served in the Women's Army Corps. 1921-1964) from the area of Santura, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and her mother was Celina Báez (1927-2021) an orphan ] from the neighborhood of Santa Rosa in Lajas, a rural area on Puerto Rico's southwest coast. ![]() Sonia Maria Sotomayor was born June 25, 1954, in the New York City borough of The Bronx. ![]()
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