Sonia is the Russian-Italian diminutive of Sophia — from the Greek sophia (wisdom). **Sonia Sotomayor (born 1954)** — **first Hispanic and first Latina justice of the United States Supreme Court** (appointed by Obama, 2009); third woman ever to sit on the Court. **Grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx; her father died when she was 9; her mother worked as a nurse to support her**. **Graduated summa cum laude from Princeton (1976), JD from Yale Law (1979); type 1 diabetes diagnosed at 7**. **Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979)** — Ukrainian-French Orphist painter; first living woman with a Louvre retrospective (1964).
Author of her memoir *My Beloved World* (2013) and the children's book *Just Ask!* (2019).
Sonia reduces to seven — the number of first Latina Justice.