President Obama plans to name Sonia Sotomayor, a federal appeals court judge to the U.S. Supreme Court today, according to media reports. Obama is scheduled to make the announcement at 10:15 a.m.
If confirmed, Sotomayor, a former prosecutor who was appointed to the federal bench by the first President Bush, would be the first Hispanic and third woman to serve on the high court. She would succeed Justice David Souter, who has announced his retirement.
Sotomayor was appointed a federal trial judge by Bush and was elevated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit by President Clinton. Her record on the federal bench has been that of centrist liberal.
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Two of her notable decisions as a trial judge were issuing an injunction against Major League Baseball forbidding it from using replacement players during the 2004 players' strike, and she issued an order allowing The Wall Street Journal to publish the suicide note of Vince Foster, the deputy White House counsel under Clinton.
She is 54 and graduated from Princeton University and Yale Law School, where she was editor of the Yale Law Review.
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