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Sonia Sotomayor

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Connections: Sonia Sotomayor has direct or once-removed relationships with 778 people, organizations or other entities in our database of the most influential people in America. Under a scoring system that gives more weight to direct links, this score is higher than 98% of all entries.

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Muckety connection score: 98

Influence: Sotomayor has a Muckety influence index of 85 out of 100. This is a measure of power and reach compared with others in the U.S. leadership elite.

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Muckety influence score: 85

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Sonia Sotomayor

Gender: Female

Born: 1954

Address: Lives and/or works in Washington, DC

Areas of interest:

media

politics & government

Religion: Catholic

Sotomayor is a graduate of Princeton University.

Sotomayor is a graduate of Yale Law School.

Personal social network: Much of Sotomayor's Muckety comes from political connections.

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Muckety news stories featuring Sonia Sotomayor

Reversal of firefighter decision likely to come up in Sotomayor hearings

Sonia Sotomayor got reversed Monday, as the U.S. Supreme Court turned back a decision she had backed as a federal judge.

June 30, 2009

Jose Cabranes was an early mentor to Sonia Sotomayor

For Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, the turning point may have come when she had lunch with Jose A. Cabranes in 1976.

June 23, 2009

Sotomayor nomination focuses attention on Belizean Grove

In a role reversal of sorts, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is being asked to defend her membership in a private club for women.

June 18, 2009

Manhattan DA Morgenthau helped boost Sotomayor's career

Upon gradation from Yale Law School in 1979, Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's pick to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court, made a surprising career choice.

June 12, 2009

With Sotomayor, Catholics would dominate high court

Should Sonia Sotomayor be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice, six of the nine members of the court will be Roman Catholic.

May 27, 2009

Opponents already decrying Sotomayor as justice choice

As soon as word leaked out Tuesday that Sonia Sotomayor would be President Barack Obama's pick for the U.S. Supreme Court, opposition voices spoke out.

May 26, 2009

Sonia Sotomayor leads online poll for Supreme Court nomination

With Justice David H. Souter leaving, will Sonia Sotomayor finally make it to the U.S. Supreme Court?

May 4, 2009

Sonia Sotomayor personal relations:

Jose A. Cabranes - mentor

Other current Sonia Sotomayor relationships:

Columbia Law School - lecturer-in-law

Museum of the City of New York's New York 400 List - listed

Phi Beta Kappa Society - member

Ricci vs. DeStefano - upheld on appeal

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit - judge

U.S. Supreme Court - justice

Sonia Sotomayor past relationships:

Belizean Grove - member

Cardinal Spellman High School (New York) - graduate

Manhattan District Attorney's Office - assistant district attorney

New York City Campaign Finance Board - member

New York University School of Law - adjunct professor

Pavia & Harcourt - partner

Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearing - subject & witness

State of New York Mortgage Agency - board member

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York - judge

Yale Law Journal - editor

Five degrees of Kevin:

We can connect Sonia Sotomayor with Kevin Bacon in five steps:
Sonia Sotomayor → Museum of the City of New York's New York 400 List →
  Martin Scorsese → Oliver Stone →
    JFK →

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Indirect links:

Sonia Sotomayor has multiple indirect connections to the following people:

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Extended reach:

Among the most influential people in Sonia Sotomayor's web of second-degree relationships:

Woody Allen

Michael R. Bloomberg

Jay-Z

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