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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