Sonia Sotomayor Research Paper

Senator Kamala Harris from Alabama is a democratic senator for the state of California. Prior to that, she held the role of 32nd Attorney General of California and District Attorney of San Francisco. Before her political career she served as managing attorney of the Career Criminal Unit in San Francisco and later as chief of the community and neighborhood division. Kamala Harris is also the first woman and Jamaican American to become attorney general, as well as third woman of color and 1st biracial woman elected into the senate. 1 This Howard University graduate is used to filling significant roles. She is currently serving on the Committee on Intelligence (Select), Committee on the Budget, Committee on Environment and Public Works, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.2

Most people don’t know the backstory of one of the first African American women to help the first space launch. Katherine Johnson was one of them. They were called computers because they were African American. She affected the greatest history event of all time.It is a pleasure for me to tell you about the impact Katherine Johnson made in our lives till this day.

Ms. Sotomayor was born on 6/25/1954 in the Bronx, located in New York City. She was the eldest of two children. Her younger sibling, Juan, is now a physician in Syracuse, New York. The family resided in the Bronxdale Houses in the projects. Her father was a tool – and – die worker, and her mother was a nurse at a methadone clinic. When

Sonia Sotomayor was born in The Bronx, New York City, in June 1954. Her father died when she was nine, and her mother raised her. After high school graduation, she entered Princeton University where she in 1976 graduated Summa Cum Laude and in 1979 received her J. D. from Yale Law School.

Judge Lisa Hammond is a special judge for the seventh district court of Oklahoma County, in Oklahoma. She earned her bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Oklahoma. She was interested in criminology but had never considered attending law school. After she began working criminal investigation in the juvenile department, she changed her mind. She felt that attorneys did not pay enough attention to the police and investigators she worked with when they were developing cases. Out of frustration and determination she studied and took the LSAT. She was soon accepted to the University of Oklahoma College of Law.

Imagine a world where the social and economic conditions for the farm workers and immigrants get worst year by year, where the discrimination among these people growth and never decline. What would happen to farm workers if Dolores Huerta shouldn’t have made any action to change their situation? This same question should be in the mind of many Americans who don’t appreciate all the effort and work that Huerta put in to change our nation. Persistent, powerful, brave, strong, simply a heroin are the best words to describe Dolores Huerta, who is one of the most important women who contributed to the creation of an equal and fair society in the United States because, she founded the Agricultural Workers Association (AWA) and also she helped create the National United Farm Workers Association (UFWA) with Cesar Chavez, she helped organize a nationwide boycott of abusive grape growers, and she founded the Dolores Huerta Foundation.

Dolores Huerta was born on April 10th, 1930 in Dawson, New Mexico. Dolores was the

President Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court justice on May 26, 2009, making Sonia Sotomayor the first Hispanic female to be nominated for higher court. Sonia Sotomayor was born on June 25, 1954. She is currently a federal judge on the U.S Courts of Appeals for a Second Circuit. If nominated she will be replacing the retiring Justice David Souter and she will also be the first Hispanic and the third female Justice. This will be a huge milestone for the Hispanic community. Looking closely into Sotomayor qualification and experience we can predict that she will most likely be approved by the Senate.

Barbara Jordan was born on February 21, 1936 in Houston Texas. She was the youngest child of three. Her father Benjamin Jordan was a Baptist minister and warehouse clerk. Her mother, Arlyne was a maid, housewife and church teacher. Jordan went to college at the University of Texas. She graduated from college being one out of two African American women in her class. Jordan passed away from viral pneumonia on January 17, 1996. Barbara Jordan is a modern here because she is a brave woman, she overcame racism, she is also a civil rights activist.

On June 20, 2001 a woman by the name of Andrea Yates, stunned the whole country with one of the most bizarre acts of violence that a parents could ever do to their own children. She called her husband at work and told him “I did it” confused by what was going on, he rush home only to find his house filled with officers of the law. The husband asked, “What is going on?”, and only to found out that his wife had drowned all five of their children.

When it comes to gender equality, few women can compare to Betsy DeVos. Moreover, Betsy DeVos remains a looming figure in the area of gender equality. Four years, Betsy DeVos has dedicated her life to reforming education and fighting for the equal rights of all Americans. Moreover, Betsy DeVos remains the proud partner of Dick DeVos. As a successful business professional, Betsy DeVos remains one of the world's wealthiest people. Also, Betsy DeVos remains a proud member of the Republican Party. Currently, she serves as the United States Secretary of Education. For those unaware, Betsy DeVos remains extremely popular in her political party. In particular, she remains popular in the areas of school choice, school voucher programs, and charter schools.

In 1992 “Maxine Waters explain the causes of Urban Crises to Congress”. Maxine Waters were born in Saint Louis, Missouri on August 15, 1938. Once she earned her degree, she started her career as a teacher where she started volunteering and working with the Head Start organization. She also got involved in inner city issues in Los Angeles and represented people in the “U.S congress” and the “California State Assembly”. On March 3, 1991, an African American Rodney King, led the police on a High Speed chase, and was pulled over and beaten brutally by the Los Angeles police, while all was recorded on videotape. When the officers were acquitted for brutally beating of Rodney King, it sparked the beginning of the L.A. riots of 1992. After the riots,

Susan B. Anthony protested for suffrage of African Americans and she helped them achieve the Fourteenth Amendment for their right to vote. After seeing this Amendment pass, she thought that it should have extended to include all American citizens, so she voted in the 1872 election of Ulysses S. Grant illegally. Susan B. Anthony recited this speech to dozens of people around the country to persuade them that her vote should have been legal. She practiced reciting this speech to perfect it before she spoke it to persuade a jury. Unfortunately, the judge decided before the trail that Susan B. Anthony was guilty and did not allow her to speak at her own trial because she was a woman (National Susan B. Anthony House). This is one of her most powerful

“Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.” Shannon L. Alder. Patty Hearst was a 19 year old college student who was kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley. Her kidnappers were members of the Symbionese Liberation Army. She was heavily beaten and passed out during her abduction. Gun shots from a machine gun were also fired.

Sandra Day O’Connor was born in El Paso, Texas in 1930. Her parents owned a cattle ranch in Southeastern Arizona. She went to school in El Paso while she lived with her grandmother. O’Connor graduated high school at the age of sixteen. In 1946, O’Connor was accepted into Stanford. She earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and a law degree. O’Connor graduated third in her class at Stanford. O’Connor tried to become a lawyer in Los Angeles and San Francisco law firms but could not because she was a woman. Instead, she was offered a job as a legal secretary ("Sandra Day O'Connor Biography”). It was very difficult for O’Connor to find a job because she was a woman (Beard). She became a county attorney in California and married John O’Connor. They moved to Germany and her husband was an attorney for the U. S. Army. O’Connor was a civilian attorney. When they