US Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor, in a vote of 63-31, was confirmed by the US Senate to be the first Hispanic woman to sit on the nation's highest court. She'll be sworn in Saturday as the court's 111th justice, third woman and first nominee by a Democrat in 15 years. The 55-year-old daughter of Puerto Rican parents was raised in a South Bronx housing project and educated in the Ivy League before rising to the highest legal echelons, spending the past 17 years as a federal judge.
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